Word: violine
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...could we know that the violinist would sit in the room next door and cry, as rug, walls and violin gathered dust? How could we know that the Merit Scholar would run up and down the hallways for exercise, shouting the lyrics to "Rockabye Baby"? How could we know that the Shakespeare expert would sneak around the dorm at night stealing food from everybody's rooms? That the poet, our roommate, would never get out of bed? That the biochemist, three doors down, never slept? That the aristocrat would run away, leaving behind only her collection of bottlecans? How could...
...only one big plus: he met his future wife during the activity. A Ph.D. candidate in English literature at Columbia, he plans a career of teaching and writing, has collaborated with Poet Kenneth Koch in encouraging ghetto kids to write poetry (TIME, Dec. 28) and regularly plays the violin. Shapiro's goal as he completes his third book of poems: "Creating a new poetry, a new cinema, a new voice...
...Harvard G and S Iolanthe is almost uniformly excellent, allowing for the perennially weak violins. Someday these people will learn that G and S, all G and S, requires a large violin section, and one which is in tune-but I'm not holding my breath. Noreen Tuross's choreography milked the ensembles for every laugh they contained, and Kenneth Kanter's stage direction was thoroughly inspired. Kanter has managed to maneuver the entire company of Iolanthe -dozens of lords and fairies, mortals and others-around the ludicrously small Agassiz stage without making the entire company look awkward. His actors...
Stirred by the pinch of musical unemployment and the urge for personal freedom, San Francisco's corps of street minstrels has now grown to a score or more regular performers, mainly on the flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin and viola. All have become remarkably knowledgeable about what kinds of groups, sounds, and even sites are best for competing with the daily cacophony of a busy city...
Street musicians leave a violin case open for contributions, and though Americans are usually awkward about public handouts, enough coins and bills customarily make it into the case to provide the musicians with up to $40 a day apiece. They all look young and healthy, so they do not threaten or depress passers-by as many beggars and blind accordion players, who get spare change and sympathy but rarely an audience...