Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best thing a musician can possibly do after he has acquired a great deal of experience," says Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, "is to pass it on to younger musicians. So many people are now gone-Kreisler, Toscanini, Rachmaninoff-who never had students. This is a great loss." It is also a sad fact that few celebrated performers have much interest in teaching-and fewer still have any talent for it (Rachmaninoff, for example, was a dour, retiring man, hardly cut out to be the Mr. Chips of the keyboard). Fortunately for a few lucky cellists, however, Piatigorsky, 61, has both...
...Saltonstall's Senate seat, spoke with the late President's mannerisms--the left hand in the jacket pocket, the cupped right hand jabbing forward in the air. Edward McCormack, running for Governor, invoked JFK's name with liturgical repetition, but his speaking style was more like that of the younger Kennedys. He still had the monotonously rhythmic Massachusetts voice, nervous, clipped phrasing. Like everyone on the podium, he seemed to be staring out at a great imaginary photo-blowup of one of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's shy smiles, carnestly trying to mimic...
...thing about all this is that the Kennedy way is hardly the best way to give a speech. Not until late October of the 1960 campaign could John Kennedy give an effective speech, and the younger brothers still haven't made it. But the style has an unstudied, youthful sincerity about it. And what the candidates wanted most to show the college Democrats was that a man of 45 could be as sincere as one of 20, if also as inarticulate...
While he admits to some strong reservations about today's "mass-produced avant-gardes," Stravinsky takes heart from the younger generation of musicians. "We all know, or should know," he says, "that America produces the finest instrumentalists in the world. This knowledge did not prepare me for the abundance of performing talent of the highest quality that I have discovered of late on visits to colleges and music schools such as Oberlin, Eastman, the University of Texas. I found not only talent but a sensible new generation of human beings. Last spring at an agricultural college in Indiana...
Complaints about sluggishness come mostly from younger pastors and laymen, reflecting dissatisfaction with veteran leadership. Pastor Robert Thornburg of Peoria fears that the result of this break with the old guard is not creative tension between two views of the church but mutual incomprehension. "We just choose up sides and hate each other," he says. Bishop Richard Raines of Indianapolis, who at a youthful-spirited 67 is the new president of the Methodist Council of Bishops, believes that the age of 50 is the usual dividing line. Many older members "want the church to be what...