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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arranging schedules, playing the life of the party, being all things to all people. He lives in a vague world of superficial friendliness, where charm is an easy way of life, and genuine warmth is reserved for work. And yet, at the worst of his extravertigo, Bernstein never lost sight of his first principles: truth to his word, loyalty to friends and family, devotion to music for its own sake. Nor did he ever lose his highly engaging, childlike wonder at being famous and doing exciting things, like meeting movie stars or the New York Philharmonic's august board...
...life of a thousand parties. "I just ran for the piano," he recalls, "as soon as I got in the door, and stayed there until they threw me out. It was as though I didn't exist without music.'' He played anything and everything from Ravel to riverboat. at sight or from memory. He barreled through the local public library's scores of the great operas and croaked the male parts while his sister Shirley shrilled the upper registers? and mother and father sat and wondered helplessly what God had wrought...
...Monet once said that he wished he had been born blind and then suddenly gained sight so that he would begin to paint without knowing what the objects were...
Last week the Mount Vernon Museum put on display a long-out-of-sight miniature, claiming it to be the very one that Martha Washington sat for as her part of the bargain (of the three miniatures Peale painted of Martha between 1772 and 1791, only one, at Yale University, had hitherto been known)'. Mount Vernon's small, 1⅛-in.-by-1½-in. oval likeness framed in a gold pendant (see cut) was acquired from G. Freeland Peter Jr. of Charlottesville, Va., a direct descendant of Martha Custis Washington. Tradition has it that Washington actually wore...
...Situated in the business district and open to the distractions of an apartment hotel, we run a dismal gauntlet-slamming doors, dripping faucets, a view of an alley, rattling trucks and an s.o.b. who dotes on playing the banjo. Once my attention was taken from a patient by the sight of a whisky bottle swinging on a string outside my office window." They wanted a new building custom-tailored to their needs...