Word: unafraidness
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Died. Dr. Grantly Dick Read. 69, champion of natural childbirth, who argued that labor pains are largely caused by fear, reported (No Time for Fear) from a trip to Africa that 95% of the unafraid primitive women he examined had painless deliveries; in Wroxham, England...
Brass Backed. Smith never let himself get sloppy, was unafraid to take a gamble to put American out ahead. For example, while most other airlines were shunning New York's newly built La Guardia field in 1938 because they did not want the bother and expense of moving from Newark, Smith saw that the shift closer to Manhattan would improve service, switched American's New York base to La Guardia. New York City was so glad to get American that the gamble paid off. Smith got a rock-bottom rental, and the other airlines were eventually forced...
...decided to be a full-time composer at 27, Walter Piston worked as a draftsman for the old Boston Elevated Railway (he helped draw plans for an "articulated streetcar") and studied painting. His painting teacher advised him: "Don't be afraid to make a poor one." Since then, unafraid Composer Piston, now 64, has turned out a steady flow of works, none of them poor, most (including a 1948 Pulitzer-prizewinning Third Symphony) concise, witty, technically brilliant. Last week the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed the latest Piston, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, to warm applause. As played...
...world celebrate the 75th birthday of the 20th century's most influential composer. What the world salutes in Stravinsky, among other things, is a paradox: in his 50 years as a composer, he has been both a popular success and a daring musical explorer, both a commercial artist unafraid of writing for money on assignment (e.g., his Tango for piano solo, his elephants' polka for the Ringling Brothers Circus) and yet an uncompromising individualist. Says Impresario Lincoln Kirstein: "He heard first for us all. Sounds he has found or invented, however strange or forbidding at the outset, have...
...blow-by-blow story to the Trib from a room in Bogota's presidential palace while insurgents fought in the corridors. Later, to get his own and fellow newsmen's copy to a cable office, Dubois ran a gauntlet of machine-gun fire. "He's absolutely unafraid," says Tribune Managing Editor Don Maxwell. "He scares us with the situations he gets into...