Word: vaughan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loosely flowing, and surprisingly modern, harmonies of three early composers best displayed the dynamic control and agility of the Glee Club's voices. After a 'Suabian Folk Song' by Brahms, an arrangement by Vaughan Williams, and an unwitting parody on schmaltz by Paul Creston, richness palled: what the Glee Club needed was more good, lean music like the Bartok 'Three Folk Songs.' To these the Choral Society gave its strongest and most straightforward performance of the evening...
...paragraph as composed by Vaughan is not to be confused with the paragraph as defined by grammarians. Sometimes Vaughan's product is no more than a sentence, and seldom does it exceed two. When successful, it is a marvel of compression, laced with wisdom or wit. "The paragraph is an uncompromising medium," says Vaughan. "In 25 or 30 words you have to say something wise or funny, with no chance to pad it out or conceal the lack of point. Also, the paragraph presupposes some information on the part of the reader. The paragrapher can't explain what...
...Bill Vaughan, a latecomer to the trade, became a paragrapher by chance. After three years of newspapering in Springfield, Mo., he joined the editorial staff of the Star in 1939, worked at various assignments until the paper's resident paragrapher. the late Clad H. ("Pip") Thompson, retired in 1946. Vaughan replaced Pip as custodian of "Starbeams," a column of paragraphs that has stuck to the Star's editorial page since the paper's birth in 1880. (The first Starbeam: "Modjeska [a prominent 19th century actress] is fond of onions.") In 1953, when the Detroit News...
Firm Foundation. Like all good paragraphers, Bill Vaughan takes a whimsical view of his craft. "Paragraphing was always based on a firm foundation of mutual plagiarism," he says. "It may be that paragraphs are hard to sell because editors are accustomed to swiping them." Vaughan is proudest of one of his paragraphs that was widely plagiarized and wound up as a footnote to history: "One day I wrote that President Millard Fillmore had lent encouragement to Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, and that out of gratitude Morse had named the characters of the Morse code...
Paragrapher Vaughan, also writes essays for the Star, and recently scored two solid hits in this new department: the Bell Syndicate is syndicating his essays, and Simon & Schuster will soon publish a collection of them, Bird Thou Never Wert, in book form. But once a paragrapher, always a paragrapher. Said Essayist Vaughan of his book title, automatically composing a paragraph: "It fits the two main requirements for a book title today-it comes from the classics and means absolutely nothing...