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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born in Vilna, Russia, a center of Jewish culture that produced Heifetz, Schneider acquired early experience as a teen-age member of a trio in a local restaurant. The trio occasionally was summoned to play in an upstairs room while a patron made love to a prostitute in full view of the musicians. Undaunted-even by the tip of a bottle of vodka-Schneider sometimes arranged to meet the girl afterward...
...past three years have been among the most fecund in his life. "I'm in a state of euphoria," he reports, having completed more than 80 paintings and ten sculptures. Many of these go on view in a massive Miró exhibit that opens this week at the Maeght Foundation near Vence in Southern France. As always, he works, as he puts it, "in part by hazard; the main thing is the first breath, with great attack...
...used to be said, was write journalism. By turning out facts to please the masses, he would supposedly debase his own style. But with so many writers, from Truman Capote to Norman Mailer, plunging into journalism. Novelist Thomas Fleming (A Cry of Whiteness) has taken the opposite view. A bout of journalism may be good for the writer but bad for journalism...
...their kind of personal journalism has its dangers, warns Fleming. It is based on the "more or less tacit consensus of the intellectual establishment that objectivity does not exist. Hence the personal comment which attempts to do no more than state one man's point of view on a certain patch of experience." "Pure objectivity," he says, is probably an unattainable ideal. "But this does not mean that it should be abandoned any more than we should stop trying to tell each other the truth because an awful lot of people in this world are liars...
Amidst all this, both parties are rushing ass-backwards toward the nominations of the two dullest candidates in the field--Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. Party leaders on both sides, as reports from the governors' conference in Cincinnati suggest, view this prospect with something less than riotous enthusiasm. They seem to think that the screaming, grabbing, tugging, and titers may be more than discontent over rising crime rates and Vietnam...