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...said, "to sounds that have already been heard," indignantly rejected an offer of $14,000 a year to conduct at the Capitol Theater in New York. "What do you think I am," asked Varèse -"a whore?" After turning out such ear-wrenching but nonelectronic works as Arcana and Ameriques, he fell silent for 18 years while he speculated on the musical possibilities of electronic noise. In 1953 he began putting on tape the sounds that he was hearing in his head...
They wrote like two sage old Romans from twin centers of the later empire. Their interest was in philosophy, literature, in the arcana of their craft, in their misfortunes and ailments (once Holmes slipped on a piece of ice, again Pollock was struck by a bicyclist), in Washington heat and London fog, in the wonder that returning spring has for aging men. The year the Japanese sank the Russian fleet at Tsushima, Pollock dropped Holmes a postcard: "Certainly I believe you are as real as I am, but, as you are ejusdem generis with me, that does not make...
Three of them are Yalemen; all of them want to be better. One of them started life (after Yale '28) as a floorwalker in Macy's, eager to learn in that temple the arcana of business success. He later got a job with FORTUNE. One was a Chicago boy who (after Yale '27) wandered to Spain, North Africa, Florida in search of the right place to sit down and write. One (an indispensable one) had money: a Yale ('28) esthete whose Manhattan family helped manage the Revolution (1776) and has since been so well-satisfied with...
...announcement that fifty-one committees; including over five hundred members, are to visit the various departments of Harvard, may give the impression of a sudden burst of publicity, of throwing open the arcana, as it were to the nation at large. The names of the visitors from an imposing list; it is almost a roster of the better known graduates and contains as well a number of people who are only holders of honorary degrees, or who are not in any way connected with Harvard University...