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...Reyes is constantly polite, so he does not seem bothered by thesis talk, Wednesday, for example, he was eating lunch in South House's Whitman dining room when a friend walked up, set his tray down at the table, and asked, "So George, how's it going...
...frenzied ride to masturbatory heaven. Like a wild animal who can be tamed according to a set of tricks he is helpless to resist, but who can disfigure the Great White Hunter in the process, Firth never becomes really threatening. His madness is not the agony of a Charles Whitman on an Austin tower, but a private horror and a private satisfaction...
Until a few days ago, the vice-presidential office in the Executive Office Building was empty, a bored security man tending the silence. With the Vice President off in Puerto Rico, Ann Whitman, his chief of staff, came to town to scout the space requirements and establish the Rockefeller presence. She moved with assurance and understanding, and hardly made a ripple, in contrast to the usual entry of a new man's advance guard. Having been Dwight Eisenhower's personal secretary, she has spent more time in the White House and its environs than Ford and Rockefeller...
Today, more than half a century after he completed the bulk of his work, Ives is generally acknowledged as the greatest, certainly the most original of America's composers. A fierce, patriotic innovator, he combined the best instincts of Edison and Whitman; he was the first important American to pioneer a musical path outside the European tradition. He was once thought of, erroneously, as a kind of Grandma Moses of music, an untutored primitive breaking all the rules without realizing it. Ives broke the rules all right, but only after having mastered them as a Yale music student...
...some lengthy remarks on teaching. I was intrigued with Koch's central idea: people's imaginations are more readily available to them when they are young; it's important to tap that flow before it is turned off. A teacher of writing and performance of poetry at Radcliffe, Ruth Whitman, once wrote--and Koch would agree--that children "are still close to the elemental sources, they are naturally honest, their mythmaking and imagemaking apparatus is close at hand." These seemed incontrovertible truths when I left with my brother-in-law from an idyllic farm west of Cleveland for the alternative...