Word: stints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ohio-born Martin, a freelance magazine writer for 25 years, and a campaign speechwriter for John F. Kennedy, took perceptive daily notes throughout his diplomatic stint. He was appointed to the Dominican post by Kennedy during the power vacuum that followed the assassination of Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Martin's near-impossible assignment was to try to establish rudimentary democracy in a land that had known nearly five centuries of despotism. As he bade the ambassador goodbye Kennedy jestingly warned: "If you blow this one, you'd better not come home...
CARL WEINRICH: MOZART SONATAS FOR ORGAN AND ORCHESTRA (RCA Victor). Mozart served a short stint as official organist for the Archbishop of Salzburg. His 17 organ sonatas, though intended as insertions in the Mass, are less religious works than graceful incidental music. Organist Weinrich understands this, and gives a luminous, flexible performance...
...After a three-year stint in the Army, however, Lateiner's headlong progress hit a not-so-grand pause. Columbia Records ignored him, and indeed, Lateiner, who was shy and knew nothing of the ways of self-promotion, never even tried to get his recording contract renewed. For several years he seemed merely to hover on the fringes of the select circle of U.S. pianists; he never quite won the measure of popular acclaim that went to others of his generation, such as Gary Graffman and Leon Fleisher. Last month, when he called his manager's Los Angeles...
...spent the last two weeks at Travis Air Force Base, Ga., on his first summer stint with the 133rd Nation al Guard Tactical Fighter Squadron, where his regular assignment was to work in a clerical section under a Negro master sergeant. His superiors and buddies alike were unanimous in pronouncing him a regular guy and a hard worker. He handled requests for interviews by not giving any. He was photographed on KP duty, and pictures of Nugent tromping down garbage and washing dishes got wide circulation...
...Detroit's The Fifth Estate, an eight-page paper, has been publishing twice monthly since last November for a circulation of 1,000. Its editor is Harvey Ovshinsky, 18, who put in a brief stint at the Los Angeles Free Press after graduating from high school, came back to Detroit to set up his own paper because "the liberals, the hippies and the anarchists have no organ. We print the other side." Ovshinsky is planning a long career in journalism. "I intend to be publishing this paper," he says, "when...