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Eliot House piano stylist Joseph G. Raposo '58 was heralded as "a great musician" by Boston disc jockey Sidney Toren in an interview last night, Known in music circles as "Symphony Sid" and a fly hipster (expert) on the "cool" school of jazz, Toren was equally lavish with praise for Raposo's quartet and its saxophonist, John C. M. Brust...
Rocky swung himself arm-weary trying to tag the elusive stylist, took some jolting punches himself before he cornered his man and battered him senseless. Said Archie when he got his wits back: "I haven't an excuse in the world. Marciano is far and away the strongest man I've encountered. You can avoid him some of the time, but not all of the time." ¶ A few weeks earlier than usual, big-league baseball began its autumn managerial shuffle. After eight years, Lippy Leo Durocher and the New York Giants parted company. Everyone was still friends...
Wouk, a meticulous researcher,* tries for "plain style, clarity of expression, as I'm not a poet, and not a high stylist." He shuns obscenity in his books: "You don't use dirty language in someone's home. When a reader holds my book, we are in an even closer relationship than a guest's." Pinpointing his own faults, he says: "I overwrite. I fail to achieve the standard of excellence I strive for, and fall into mediocrity." He reads and rereads Shakespeare, but Dickens is his all-time favorite author ("He could create reality with...
...endeavor," he wrote, "is to make the heavy light; my ideal is clarity; and if I write long sentences-a tendency inherent in the German tongue-I make it my business, not without success, to maintain the utmost transparency and spoken rhythm." In German he was an exquisite stylist, and he brought to that language a new sensitivity in the art of storytelling...
...Restless, volatile Bob Shaw felt that he had come as far as he could with Manhattan's famed amateur Collegiate Chorale, the Robert Shaw Chorale and the smaller voice groups that ballooned him from a $35-a-week arranger for Fred Waring to a creative, sensitive stylist who could make some $75,000 a year. Shaw was looking for an orchestra to work and learn with. When San Diego issued the call, he lost no time in saying...