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| e09113a | Think of a full-size harp, the kind used in orchestras. Pivot it mentally from the vertical, as it normally stands, to the horizontal and put it in a box shaped to its frame. There you have the shape of the grand piano. | Thad Carhart | ||
| b1a5a1f | This sensitivity to the qualities of wood was as essential to the pioneers of piano building as it was to the great makers of stringed instruments like Stradivari or Guarneri. | Thad Carhart | ||
| c6b5d53 | I sat down on the bench and started playing, instantly lost in the perfection of the moment; I was elsewhere. | Thad Carhart | ||
| 0a2733e | Music isn't music unless we share it with others," she told me, but even then that sentiment seemed unsatisfactory to me." | Thad Carhart | ||
| e0601d6 | Motionless, he held the final chord for a long moment and we felt--I could almost say watched--the harmony rise into the light-filled cold of the atelier. | Thad Carhart | ||
| 084851d | Remember, too, that the trees for the wood that was used to build this piano were most likely planted in the late sixteenth century. | Thad Carhart | ||
| b4d84e7 | Luc explained that the woodworking tradition was firmly established in Germany from the Middle Ages, and that guilds and families regularly replanted trees in order to provide the right kind of wood for their descendants. | Thad Carhart | ||
| 109318e | On ne fait pas de musique contre quelqu'un" ("One does not make music against someone else")." -- | Thad Carhart | ||
| f5be3a4 | Etre patient avec soi-meme!" ("Be patient with yourself!")" | Thad Carhart | ||
| 65a266d | It's a world with its own traditions and lore, some of which are hidden within pianos themselves. | Thad Carhart | ||
| 630d1b5 | He left me at my hotel at 3:00 AM murmuring: "You're marvelous." | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 187b8a0 | I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 46d8722 | Religions at least give hope; that's something, even if it's based on dreams. But those who promise heaven here on earth, whether it's Communists or Masons, they're the worst of the worst. | Thad Carhart | ||
| 5dfeb7c | On a visit to the Steinway showroom in New York, I saw Henry Steinway, the last member of the family to be connected with the company, take out a felt-tip pen and sign the painted metal frame of a piano for an enthusiastic customer. It was like watching a baseball player sign a ball, or an author his book, and seemed in keeping with our age of celebrity. | Thad Carhart | ||
| bdf0418 | A voicing apprentice came to work at the Steinway factory one day to find his master, a man of great reserve, in tears. The master was standing before the disassembled action assembly of an old Steinway grand that had been sent back to the factory to be reconditioned. "What's wrong?" asked the apprentice. "How can I help?" The master then explained that when he had removed the action assembly from the piano, he had found the name of another.. | Thad Carhart | ||
| abeaab1 | a "melomane," the French word for music lover;" | Thad Carhart | ||
| a7f4b68 | The teaching of music in France is taken very seriously; while admirable enough in itself, very often it veers toward an overly formal and academic approach. | Thad Carhart | ||
| 3406a49 | emerged with a shared sense of the exultation that great music can bring. | Thad Carhart | ||
| ad249ab | right? But no. Don't hitchhike, the driver | Ann Packer | ||
| 7dd72c3 | Matrimony, he began to think, was a cure for an illness he hadn't known he had. | Ann Packer | ||
| d9a94d3 | Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them | decisions life self-discovery | Ann Packer | |
| e9a4fe7 | Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, | Ann Packer | ||
| 7756e1e | Lonely is a funny thing," she said slowly. "It's almost like another person. After a while, it'll keep you company if you'll let it." | Ann Packer | ||
| d386b23 | The school you went to is the most important thing. They don't recruit at less prestigious schools. I was lucky. I didn't go to a great school. I mean in my analyst class, we had thirty from Harvard, twenty from Wharton['s undergraduate program], and only five from [my top-fifteen school]. Once in a while, you see someone from a state school. But usually they're there because of connections. The most common type of connection was a personal.. | Lauren A. Rivera | ||
| 3f92223 | Trump, tenants said, tried to force them out by annoying them. He proposed to move homeless people into at least ten vacant apartments; the city declined the generous offer. Maintenance workers ignored leaky faucets and broken appliances and covered up windows of empty apartments with ratty tinfoil. A tenants' group accused Trump of harassment, but he denied all. "Let me tell you something about the rich," he said. "They have a very low thr.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| d1a269c | DONALD ARRIVED AT NEW York Military Academy in September of 1959, a stocky teenager bewildered by his new surroundings. An hour north of Manhattan, the school was located in tiny Cornwall-on-Hudson, on a campus with a culture so strict and unforgiving that one desperate cadet was rumored to have jumped into the Hudson River to swim to freedom. | Michael Kranish | ||
| 577bb4e | Sherman Cohen, a tough negotiator in the Manhattan properties market, expressed interest and Ifshin set up a meeting in Trump's office. Before taking a seat at Trump's conference table, Cohen lit up a cigarette. But when he reached for the ashtray in the middle of the table, it would not budge. Donald, Cohen said, do you have this thing screwed down? This conference table comes from my hotel, the Barbizon, Trump said, and we screwed down al.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| ac20392 | Instead of adhering to his father's commands, Donald had a new master, a gruff, barrel-chested combat veteran named Theodore Dobias. Dobias, or Doby as he was known, had served in World War II and had seen Mussolini's dead body hanging by a rope. As the freshman-football coach and tactical-training instructor, Doby smacked students with an open hand if they ignored his instructions. Two afternoons a week, he would set up a boxing ring and o.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| 1249943 | Presposterous, Ifshin thought. There's always a negotiation. And then it dawned on Ifshin that he had been used. Donald, he said, this was your way of getting an informal appraisal, to see if someone would bite, and for how much. Trump denied it, but Ifshin pushed back: This was just a ruse to see what the buildings might be worth in the marketplace, and now Trump knew, at least $90 million. You owe me a commission for getting you an inform.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| a344beb | Whether his students were the sons of plumbers or millionaires, Dobias did not care. They would follow his orders, no questions or whining tolerated. Donald was no exception. | Michael Kranish | ||
| 3020156 | Founded in 1889 by a Civil War veteran in what had been a summer resort hotel, the academy modeled its strict code of conduct and turreted academic building after West Point, located five miles south along the Hudson. About 450 students were enrolled, all of them white except for a couple of dozen Latin Americans. The school did not admit blacks until Donald's senior year. Women would not arrive for another decade. The military academy was .. | Michael Kranish | ||
| c68b088 | Only high-ranking student officers were allowed off campus in groups on Sunday afternoons, although cadets could leave for a meal with their parents. Fred Trump often came up to see his son. Once, when Fred arrived in a limousine driven by his chauffeur, Donald was too embarrassed to meet him. From then on, Fred drove his own Cadillac to check up on Donald. The | Michael Kranish | ||
| b7b8abd | Physical brutality and verbal abuse were tolerated, even encouraged. Hazing was a part of freshman life, with upperclassmen pummeling new cadets with broom handles or forcing them to stand fully dressed in their uniforms atop radiators or in steam-filled showers until they passed out. Michael Scadron, a close Trump friend at the academy, said his own hazing culminated with upperclassmen requiring him to kiss the school's mascot--a donkey--".. | Michael Kranish | ||
| f626f75 | DONALD'S COMPETITIVE DRIVE TOOK over as he learned to master the academy. He won medals for neatness and order. He loved competing to win contests for cleanest room, shiniest shoes, and best-made bed. For the first time, he took pride in his grades; he grew angry when a study partner scored higher on a chemistry test, even questioning whether he had cheated. Donald also learned to manage Dobias, projecting strength--especially in sports--wi.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| b2c7baa | Despite his affluence, Donald's tastes were often plebeian. In the waning months of the Eisenhower administration, in a culture defined by conformity, Donald used the record player in his dorm room mostly to listen to Elvis Presley and Johnny Mathis albums. Sometimes, Donald would screw an ultraviolet lightbulb into the overhead socket and announce to his roommate that it was time to tan. "We're going to the beach," he'd say. As" | Michael Kranish | ||
| daaf9c0 | As a senior, Donald drew notice for bringing women to campus and showing them around. "They were beautiful, gorgeous women, dressed out of Saks Fifth Avenue," said classmate George White. Trump was never shy about judging a girl's appearance, pronouncing one of White's visitors a "dog." | Michael Kranish | ||
| a54eb52 | On another day, when he was on inspection duty, Trump came upon fellow student Ted Levine's unmade bed. Trump ripped the sheets off and threw them on the floor. Levine, a foot shorter than Trump, threw a combat boot at Donald, then hit him with a broomstick. Infuriated, Trump grabbed Levine and tried to push him out a second-floor window, Levine recalled. Two other cadets intervened to prevent Levine from falling. | Michael Kranish | ||
| ad29aa0 | No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness . | Anaïs Nin | ||
| df5fb5a | Dobias taught his players the line famously attributed to legendary Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi: "I taught them that winning wasn't everything, it was the only thing," Dobias said. "Donald picked right up on this. He would tell his teammates, 'We're out here for a purpose. To win.' He always had to be number one, in everything. He was a conniver even then. A real pain in the ass. He would do anything to win" | Michael Kranish | ||
| 7d4f08d | After his transfer, Trump was put in charge of a special drill team for New York City's Columbus Day parade. In white gloves and dressed in full uniform, Trump led the procession south along Fifth Avenue toward St. Patrick's Cathedral, where he shook hands with Francis Cardinal Spellman. Turning to Major Anthony "Ace" Castellano, one of NYMA's commanders, Trump said, "You know what, Ace? I'd really like to own some of this real estate somed.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| af174aa | For a time, Trump bragged of being a top student among his 333 Wharton classmates, even claiming to have been first in the class. But Trump is not included on the honor roll printed in the Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper, and classmates don't recall Trump as an exceptional student. "Trump was not what you would call an 'intellectual,' " said Louis Calomaris, his classmate. "He wasn't a dumb guy. He had a specific interest. I don'.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| afd2284 | In the years after Trump graduated, Wharton became synonymous with financial success. Many of its graduates grew rich, and Penn's endowment soared. Alumni gave generously, their names emblazoned all over campus. But although Wharton's place in Trump's biography expanded, his contributions to the school did only rarely. In the 1980s, a Penn development officer said Trump had given the school more than $10,000, but declined to elaborate. "I d.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| 53cb0e5 | One sizable gift came in 1994, when he gave enough to be listed as a "founder" of the Penn Club's new location in midtown Manhattan. The minimum gift for that category was $150,000. Two autumns later, Donald Trump Jr. arrived at the leafy campus. In all, three of the four older Trump children--including Ivanka (transferring after two years at Georgetown) and Tiffany--would attend Penn, making the school almost an inheritance, a family emble.. | Michael Kranish | ||
| 0df4457 | Trump became a regular at the club and later recounted seeing "things happening there that to this day I have never seen again. I would watch supermodels getting screwed, well-known supermodels getting screwed on a bench in the middle of the room. There were seven of them and each one was getting screwed by a different guy. This was in the middle of the room. Stuff that couldn't happen today because of problems of death." On" | Michael Kranish |