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His works include the operas Peter Grimes (1945) and Billy Budd (1951), the choral works Hymn to St Cecilia (1942) and A War Requiem (1962), and numerous orchestral pieces.
USAT gets credit for going to novelist and boxing expert Budd Schulberg for some historical perspective, but slips a little in saying that his novel The Harder They Fall inspired the movie "On The Waterfront."
--the replacement of "Sammy Glick" with "Tracy Flick" gives the game away--but told in a way that makes more (or more modern) sense: Its hero--unlike Budd Schulberg's--doesn't remain the voice of moral authority; his envy, self-hatred, and displaced lust makes him self-destruct in spectacular fashion.
Melville's Budd is a naive, good man who is punished unfairly for an accidental murder he is provoked into committing by someone who tried to frame him for a crime.
His efforts to insinuate himself were so relentless that Cary Reich, the author of this sprawling new biography (and of an earlier biography of the financier André Meyer), refers to his subject as a "patrician Sammy Glick" (though he never reaches the heights of heeldom demonstrated by the hero of Budd Schulberg's novel about pre-war Hollywood back-stabbing).