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(1917 – 1977) He would not be a proper scion (such good New England stock!). He would not be a Harvard man (rather a “fugitive” at Kenyon College). He would not fight in the First World War (366 days in prison). He would not write Auden’s English (Lord Weary’s Castle). He would not abandon a precarious sanity (McLean’s Hospital). He would not disown the America he’d inherited and he would “not scare” (Life Studies, 1959). He would not translate properly (Imitations, 1961). He would not divorce poetry from personality (Notebooks, 1967–8, The Dolphin, Day by Day). He would be our greatest poet.
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(1917 – 1982) Visionary composer and pianist who was part of the select group of musicians who created the postwar jazz genre of bebop, and whose influence continued into the postbebop era. Moving to Harlem at the age of five, he studied with the great pianist Mary Lou Williams and started performing in 1934. Although his compositions and performance styles were valued by his peers, Monk was under-appreciated by jazz fans and critics during his early career. He was quirky unorthodox and sparse as a composer, improvising at times from the melodic line and not the chordal structure. He employed abrupt tempo changes and melodic twists to invigorate his unorthodox playing—his signature stylings served to inspire other mavericks.
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(born 1918) Preacher William Franklin Graham, Jr brought evangelical religion to the global stage via mass revivals and mass media. After his childhood in the Depression South. Graham turned to the fundamentalist ministry founding his Evangelical Association in 1950. His primary vehicle was the mass crusade in urban centers from New York City to Los Angeles, CA (and eventually from London to Moscow), rebroadcast for multiple nights over television worldwide. Graham also became a conservative Christian confidant to US presidents from Eisenhower to Clinton. including the awkward Vietnam and Nixon years. His autobiography Just as I am, appeared in 1997.
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(1918 – 1974) Potboiler author of scandalous novels set in the entertainment industry. Valley of the Dolls shocked the 1960s with descriptions of sex and loose lifestyles, while the film version of the novel (1967) became a camp classic. Ms Susann also wrote Every Night, Josephine, The Love Machine (another roman a clef set in network television), Once Is Not Enough, Delores (a thinly veiled portrait of “the other Jackie”) and Yargo (an attempt at science fiction). A biography by Barbara Seaman shows that her own life was replete with bisexuality and pills. In 2000 Bette Midler depicted Ms Susann in Isn’t She Great.
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(1918 – 1990) An American composer and pianist, Leonard Bernstein also conducted the Boston Symphony and the New York Philharmonic Orchestras. A child prodigy he was committed to bringing symphonic music to larger audiences, aided by his own celebrity status and television. Bernstein is perhaps best known for the rousing, modern music of West Side Story (1957), a re-staging of Romeo and Juliet among New York gangs; his Candide (1956) and Chichester Psalms have been performed in opera houses worldwide.
A charismatic, passionate, politically involved and controversial individual, he reflected many of the social changes of the 1960s. Rumors about his personal and family life abounded during his life, and after his death his homosexual relationships were discussed in biographies.
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(1918 – 1992) A successful Arkansas five-and-ten entrepreneur, Walton opened his first discount Walmart in 1962, building it into the largest retailer in the US. Slashing costs through lower profit margins, computerized inventory control and high volume with limited service, his “big-box” stores mushroomed in malls and small towns. While the latter came to see Walmarts as threats to local economic life, the company continually advertises “Americanness,” community involvement and support for workers. By the mid-1980s, Walton became the richest man in America; his 1992 autobiography is Sam Walton: Made in America.
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(1918 – 1996) Dubbed “The First Lady of Song,” Ella Fitzgerald’s musical career spanned almost sixty years and extended to forays into movies and television. In 1934 she won an amateur contest at the Apollo that led to her 1935 recording debut with the Chick Webb orchestra. In 1938 a swinging adaptation of the old nursery rhyme, “A Tisket, A Tasket,” was her first commercial success. In the late 1950s, she recorded with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. The first black woman ever awarded a Grammy, Fitzgerald went on to win twelve more.
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(1918 – 1996) Thirty-ninth vice-president of the United States, under Republican President Richard Nixon (1969–73). A popular figure in the conservative political establishment, Agnew was forced to resign in 1973 amid allegations that he had accepted bribes and kickbacks as vice-president and while in office in Maryland years earlier. The scandal marked the beginning of an era in which Americans’ instinctive mistrust of government reached unprecedented heights. Only a year after Agnew stepped down, President Nixon was forced from office as a result of the Watergate scandal.
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(born 1919) Dancer and choreographer who worked with Martha Graham. He presented his first solo concert in 1944, with music by John Cage, with whom he would maintain a lifelong relationship. He formed the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in the Pacific Northwest in 1953, and choreographed over 200 works thereafter for them and for ballet and dance companies worldwide. Cunningham has consistently focused on dance as an abstract art, where movement—even if determined by chance—is more important than narrative. In addition to collaboration with artists and composers, he has also experimented with film and video dance. His prodigious and creative work has earned him global accolades.
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(born 1919) Full name, Jerome David, Salinger is a reclusive American author, best known for Catcher in the Rye (1951), whose hero, Holden Caulfield, became a prototype for teenage rebellion and rejection of “phony” adults. The book has long been a lightning rod for fights over censorship in public schools, but still enjoys wide popularity among teenagers. Salinger also wrote other chronicles of the fictional Glass family including Franny and Zooey (1961) and Seymour: An Introduction (1963). His self-imposed solitude was shattered in the 1990s by revelations of his former companion, Joyce Maynard.
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