My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.
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After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.
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I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.
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As for characters, I think that very little is needed. You just give a hint and the reader will make up the character on his or her own.
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