Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear all kinds of things about Tom Lehrer. In prep school, where everybody who has a brother at Harvard also has his record, you hear about how he got kicked out for criticizing the Administration. Some people will tell you he's a Communist, others think he was a professor of some prominence who was too much of a light-hearted roue to stay within the academic confines of Cambridge...
...Lehrer has his relations with his audience pretty well figure dout. "I don't feel the 'waves of love' they tell you an entertainer is supposed to feel. The hardest thing is to make it look as if you're enjoying it," he says. "It's so mechanical now, I find my mind wanders and I get lost in the middle of a song...
...combinations of tone color informed the short piano pieces by Bertram Baldwin and David Behrman (a violin also entered Mr. Behrman's piece for a while). There were row structures, not so elaborate as Wolff's, but complicated enough to be hardly perceptible. The avant-garde leader Boulez would tell us that structure has gone underground. But does this subterreanean structure really give shape to a piece, or does it happen accidentally, or not at all? In a short composition like Baldwin's it is easier to give a sense of cohesiveness; this piece, rather aptly titled Conversations with Gryllus...
...week's end, with a load of data from set interviews and continuous observation, Dr. Terhune and staff tell the executive what he needs. In many cases, advice (rooted in the confidence of long talks) on what to do and not to do may be enough. For emotional problems of moderate severity, Dr. Terhune prescribes what he calls "mental hygiene re-education." It may run to a few weeks or months of psychotherapy. There is never a written report to the executive's company, and Dr. Terhune passes as much responsibility as possible to the family doctor...
...tale he loves to tell...