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...dimensional images and easy stereotypes are the currency of our dealings with classical music and classical musicians. Mozart is the boy prodigy; Beethoven, the tormented, deaf visionary; Bach the obscure wigged fellow who wrote that neat organ piece they play in horror flicks. In the same vein, Joseph Haydn is remembered as the long-lived "Father of the Symphony" who also penned the great oratorios "The Seasons" and "The Creation. "Yet Haydn's vocal works display a variety that challenges the preconceived notions. Haydn, despite his reputation, was a master of many genres...

Author: By John D. Shepherd, | Title: Haydn and More Haydn...Joseph, that is | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

...think it's neat," said Lt. Col. Dan Robertson. "I told my wife, `Hey, Elvis' barber cut my hair...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The News of the Weird | 2/22/1992 | See Source »

...coverage, it's nice to be able to fall back on Kahn. But we'd never actually want to meet the man for fear that he turns out not to be the graying, dapper, eccentric man in the stands with a copy of Waugh in one hand and a neat little notebook in the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SCRIBE OF THE OLYMPICS: FOLLOWING THE NEW YORKER'S E. J. KAHN, JR. | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...question: What if America's trade deficit with Japan is a permanent condition and cannot be eliminated through pressure to open up Japanese markets or short-term investments in domestic competitiveness? The Democrats -- aside from Brown, who rarely mentions Japan in his different- drummer campaign -- fit on a neat grid from hawk to dove in their strategies for meeting the Japanese challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Bashing on the Campaign Trail | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...young single mother, had just returned from the grocery store with her six-year-old son when I arrived at her apartment. She had not chosen a candidate yet, but was very interested in what Harkin would do for the economy and the health care system. In her neat lower-middle class apartment, Sharon told me that although she resented Bush's handling of the economy, she "hadn't gotten around to looking into all the candidates...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: Waffling in the Granite State | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

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