Word: stoutest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles Ives himself was not present to hear the applause. Ill for years with diabetes and heart trouble, he also has a nervous condition which makes listening to music unbearable. The stoutest Yankee of all U.S. composers- a man who composed for love, sold insurance for a living-Ives now lives in strict retirement with his wife Harmony. His First Symphony, never performed, is still "out in the barn...