Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Outreach Opportunity League, run by a former Harvard volunteer, embraces 250 schools. Harvard's Phillips Brooks House Association, the nation's oldest college community-service organization, is a model of how unsoftheaded the approach now is. Students must not only dream up the projects (which now number 50) but write detailed proposals for how to fund and operate them. Last week the city of Cambridge awarded a $23,000 contract to the association, rather than other social service agencies, to run a 20-bed shelter for the homeless...
...exiled writer, and his plight is, if anything, worse: audiences in his new country know next to nothing of the life he used to write about, and he knows next to nothing of the life familiar to them. To him, America is the Lower East Side of Manhattan plus the abstract, rectilinear shapes of the states on the map he stares at hour after hour. The story that this married couple tells is comic but grim: for the sake of freedom they have given up money, status, craft and identity. They are not only strangers in a strange land, they...
Morricone nearly did not make the time for The Mission at all. After Director Roland Joffe screened the film for him, the composer announced that he would not do the music. "It was so beautiful without it," he explains. "But everyone insisted and begged me to write." Now, whenever Morricone suffers an occasional twinge of conscience about forsaking the concert hall for the soundstage, he overcomes it "with great ease by thinking of movies like The Mission...
Morricone's father was a trumpet player who performed jazz and opera and worked on movie scores. His son started to write music ("dreadful") at the age of six. When he was twelve, his parents enrolled him in the Rome music conservatory, where he finished a four-year harmony course in six months. Morricone remembers that his professor, wary of wasting such a potential talent, told him sternly that "if I did not enroll in the composition course, I was an assassin." He also taught his student that "one of the values of a music script is the pain that...
...secret desk drawer filled with soap filched from hotel rooms around the world. At the moment, Morricone is in the throes of scoring Brian DePalma's upcoming The Untouchables. He works nine-hour stretches almost daily, in part because he is perpetually plagued by the question " 'Will I write again tomorrow?' Whoever says I write too much music doesn't understand that there is a deep necessity. When a composer writes little, he starts being afraid...