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...GRAVELY, by Iris Dornfeld. A novel written by a musician about a slum boy who composes an electronic symphony from the sounds he has heard all his life and finally gets to hear it performed in the Hollywood Bowl. In telling about this unlikely hero, the author delineates the terrible disease and destiny that is genius...
...Missouri and Kansas for more than 40 years (one brother controls the City National Bank & Trust of Kansas City, the other the huge Kemper Investment Co. and a host of smaller banks), himself a bank president at 31, responsible for much of Kansas City's road building, slum clearance and downtown business renewal; by his own hand (pistol), after suffering from cancer for twelve years; in Kansas City...
...Stroke of Luck. Faraday grew up in a London slum. His parents were kindly, God-fearing and bone poor-the boy at times had nothing to eat but bread and water. At 14, he was apprenticed to a bookbinder-bookseller who took a shine to the likely lad and let him browse through his library. At 20, Michael began to attend scientific lectures, and at 21 he suffered a fateful stroke of luck. He caught the eye of Sir Humphrey Davy, the greatest chemist in England, who hired him as an assistant and whisked him off to the Continent...
...Gravely is a Los Angeles slum child, an unwanted bastard, and a musical genius. At five he steals a violin and teaches himself to play. At seven he sneaks into the empty Hollywood Bowl, sits down at the Steinway, improvises in an ecstasy that lasts all night. At 13, carrying a couple of stolen instruments, he heads east on a slow freight. He lands in New Orleans, immerses himself in jazz, and suffers a creative convulsion that brings him to the edge of madness. He follows his daemon to East Harlem, then on to Germany, where he composes an electronic...
...help, some lawyers suggest, would be to establish "clinics" in slum neighborhoods, where volunteer attorneys would offer their services to the people. While the bar is not yet convinced that it ought to rewrite its code of ethics, the A.B.A. did agree that "the poor must not only be educated to their legal rights, but stimulated to assert them...