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...director of International Studies at Columbia University's Teachers College. Short and barrel-chested, he uses crutches as a result of childhood polio, has been chief engineer on the campus radio station and announcer of home football games. David Fisher, 21, short, unkempt, slightly aloof, is the group's musical arranger and the only Highwayman who is seriously interested in music. Son of a public school principal in New Haven, he wants to take a Ph.D. in musicology...
Such has been the reaction to the press conferences that United Press International's Merriman Smith recently took public notice of heavy mail complaining about press-conference newsmen being rowdy, disrespectful and unkempt. Smith's defense: The fault really lies with the "shotgun mikes," which "have to sweep over a wide-and noisy-section of reporters before settling on the one recognized by the President." Last week, New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston, with whimsical tone but considerable feeling, divided the blame between the President and the press. "The President," wrote Reston, "is the chief spokesman...
...Camera for flute, English horn and strings. Unlike the tense and rigid bombast of his earlier works (notably the symphonies and the oratorios), the concerto is a relaxed, graceful, spacious and thoroughly un-neurotic work. The mood is pastoral but placid--suggesting, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, not an unkempt meadow but a well-rolled English lawn...
...than others. Daniel Seltzer's independent, personable Ulysses, Robert Thurman's willowy, boyish Troilus, William Fitz-Hugh's dim-witted Ajax with his fatuous pride, Alvarez Bulos' slippery Pandarus with oily speech and manners, David Stone's manly Hector, Travis Linn's pious Nestor, Jean Weston's over-wrought, unkempt Cassandra--all have individuality in one degree or another...
...copy nature, but shaped it with his own violent rhythms and dark dreams. In 1908 the great British critic Roger Fry at last wrote a piece about him, but the world at large still failed to take notice. By that time, Ryder was already an unkempt eccentric with wild hair and ragged clothes who lived on Manhattan's Lower West Side in a clutter of newspapers, bottles, unwashed dishes, dirty clothes and unfinished paintings that grew more frightening every year. He refused to let handymen in for necessary repairs, was so averse to housekeeping that he preferred to sleep...