Word: solomons
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...extraordinary new study, "Mozart: A Life" (HarperCollins; 640 pages; $35), Maynard Solomon does more to humanize the composer than any biographer before him. For two centuries, TIME critic Michael Walsh says, listeners have been unable to reconcile Mozart's ineffable music with his bawdy childishness: "The easiest and most common method has been to regard Mozart as a sort of child god whose works welled up spontaneously." But Solomon's sharply-written, layered chapters document the grown composer's own psychological caving-in to the legend of his prodigious childhood. Says Walsh: "Mozart and the members of his circle come...
...extraordinary new study, "Mozart: A Life" (HarperCollins; 640 pages; $35), Maynard Solomon does more to humanize the composer than any biographer before him. For two centuries, TIME critic Michael Walsh says, listeners have been unable to reconcile Mozart's ineffable music with his bawdy childishness: "The easiest and most common method has been to regard Mozart as a sort of child god whose works welled up spontaneously." But Solomon's sharply-written, layered chapters document the grown composer's own psychological caving-in to the legend of his prodigious childhood. Says Walsh: "Mozart and the members of his circle come...
Tucker and four other candidates for the position of chair, David J. Andorsky '97, David A. Ganz '96, Alberto Simpser '95-'96, and Leah J. Solomon '97, gave speeches and answered questions before the Hillel Coordinating Council...
Because no candidate won a majority on the first ballot, the top three vote-getters, Tucker, Ganz and Solomon, went...
...seemed to be the case in the recent Virginia mudfest between Oliver North and Charles Robb. The author, a political consultant, produces muck of a good, gooey consistency and characters who chuck it at each other with vigor. The best and most rascally is Matt's candidate, Governor Solomon Jawinski, a fat, Polish-Jewish carpetbagger from Detroit who drives an old El Dorado convertible and knows how to talk redneck. In a TV debate he points out that his opponent is too lean and too handsome. "When everybody in this country looked like me," he says, "our farmers were rich...