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...spiritual nourishment fed into a healthy ego, he retains a natural sense of command. "The very essence of leadership is you have to have a vision," he says. "It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." During student unrest in the '60s, he told the university community that protesters would be given 15 minutes to decide whether to desist or be suspended. Despite some grumbling from students, the ultimatum resulted in a calm few other campuses experienced...
...Hesburgh vision and trumpet have reached far beyond South Bend. He has always insisted that "my purpose is to produce educated Christians. I don't want to be Harvard, I want to be the greatest Catholic university in the world." Nevertheless, last fall he acted as point man for 111 Catholic college presidents who rebutted a Vatican schema for greater control over the appointment of theology professors at Catholic schools. Their objection was that such control could infringe academic freedom. "The church proclaims the word of God loud and clear without any doubts," says Hesburgh, whereas the "university...
While everyone said they found the trumpet blaring music of Benny Goodman and other Big Band directors to be interesting, not everyone preferred it to jazz or rock and roll. Although some more intrepid dancers confessed to their partners "Oh, I love this song, this is really cool," more confided with somewhat disappointed expressions, "This is O.K., but I can't get too enthused about...
Morricone's father was a trumpet player who performed jazz and opera and worked on movie scores. His son started to write music ("dreadful") at the age of six. When he was twelve, his parents enrolled him in the Rome music conservatory, where he finished a four-year harmony course in six months. Morricone remembers that his professor, wary of wasting such a potential talent, told him sternly that "if I did not enroll in the composition course, I was an assassin." He also taught his student that "one of the values of a music script is the pain that...
PICTURE MICHAEL Jackson at the helm of the Millenium Falcon with a crew of Snuffalupagusesque space-doofs--Two things that look like shrunken, tie-dyed Abominable Snowmen, another furry critter with a farting. trumpet-trunk nose (Is flatulence comedy's equivalent of Esperanto?), and a butterfly-winged, cute-as-hell koala that looks like a cross between Tinkerbell and John Madden...