Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...haunts me," wrote Heinrlch Heine of The Lorelei. It is a lament that might be echoed by anyone who wants to really understand what is going on around him in December 1960. Legend not only inspires artists and composers; it also on occasion illumines the news. Some legends at work last week...
...East Harlem's ganglads. And it was not really until he met tough Pete Thomas, who spoke the language of East Harlem as it can only be spoken by those who have been raised in its asphalt jungle, that Vaus made significant headway. After Vaus persuaded Thomas to work full time with Y.D.I., the organization became an important factor in East Harlem life. Some might suspect Vaus and Thomas, with their criminal backgrounds, of being a couple of Fagin types, but the doubters do not include the cops, educators or social workers in East Harlem...
Says Edward Gersh, dean of discipline at Jefferson Park Junior High School: "The boys we recommend to Jim are the ones that are rejected by other agencies. I call them Unreachables. When Jim first came here, he said he wanted to work with the most difficult kids we had. I thought he'd be spinning his wheels, but I underestimated him. He managed to reach them...
...Future. U.S. officials find Strauss good to work with. He is the only Minister Adenauer allows to make major policy statements in the Bundestag without horning in to amplify or correct. Yet many people feel that they cannot trust Strauss. His hell-for-leather ways, his quick temper and his unmistakable relish for power brush many Germans, and others, the wrong way. "He is his own worst enemy," says an old friend. Typically, he supports Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, 63, as Adenauer's successor, though he knows that Erhard lacks both health and political savvy to hang...
Richard Wagner: His Story and His Music (Vox). This is a handsome way for a musically receptive child to meet a master. The dissonances of Wagner's life are scanted, but the sonic sensuousness of his work is served boldly, briefly and well...