Word: steins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carmines' music is extravagantly eclectic. He writes songs about war, Joan of Arc, peace, Gertrude Stein, pornography, Jesus Christ and W.C. Fields, all in a stylistic gamut that runs from Monteverdi to Montenegro. His favorite form is an extension of the turn-of-the-century ballad, on which he imposes anything that catches his fancy: tangos, hillbilly hymns, blues, echoes, jazz, gospel shouts, Puccini pastiches...
...creations and their professionalism rather than their personal lives, of which I often knew little beyond the myth of la vie boheme. I looked at Mary Cassatt's Impressionis paintings, I mooned over Emily Dickinson's poems, absurdly imitated Isadora Duncan's dances, and I rea a little Gertrude Stein, mostly impressed that any woman could be quite so charismatic and commanding. I respected their sensitivity without really wondering how they kept their flame going during the crises of everyday life...
...jobs. Some 900 Internal Revenue Service agents will be freed from the job of poring over the books of these firms and shifted to the more productive task of investigating complaints against larger corporations. In all, nearly 2,000 IRS men will be policing the big companies. As Herbert Stein, head of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, put it: "We can watch many more billions of Gross National Product by watching General Motors than by watching the corner grocer...
...poignancy of Pritchett's early career lies in his utter isolation. Any kill he acquired was the product of reading or laborious trial and error. Joyce, Hemingway and Stein were in Paris when Pritchett was. He had never heard of them, nor had he any notion of what they were trying to do. After two years in France, he signed on as Monitor correspondent in Ireland-during the Troubles-and later went to Spain. He was so ignorant of journalism that for a while he was unaware that he could even approach government or political figures for interviews. Later...
Mather House Music Series. Soprano--Piano recital. Sopranists: Judith Stein, Betty Watson. Pianists: Barbara Marlis, Warren Jones, Joel Davidson. Mather dining hall. 3, April 30. Free...