Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some $900,000. The center's ultimate goal is a multimillion-dollar program aimed at improving literacy and job skills among the chronically unemployed. Farmer's war on poverty - he calls it "my brainchild" - will concentrate on the most difficult hard core cases, men between their mid-20s...
...more at home in London's salons than the New Towns' public saloons. As early as Oxford, Jenkins found himself at odds with the woolly Marxism of the university's Labor Club, helped found the more moderate Democratic Socialist Club. While still in his 20s he wrote a biography of his friend and political mentor Clement Attlee, has since penned three historical works, including a bestseller on Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. His latest: Victorian Scandal (see BOOKS), about the ruination of Liberal Sir Charles Dilke. "I regard writing as the only real work," Jenkins once said...
Unhappily, as was often the case with Victorian politicians, Dilke's private life was rather less exemplary than his public activity. He had a fatal attraction to the tigress type, and during his 20s and 30s he apparently conducted affairs with three or four appallingly predatory women-among them his sister-in-law's mother...
...tenor who, saying that hours spent in practice are wasted ("Singing is not like athletics-you don't get any better by exercise"), nursed his voice through a 54-year career, first in romantic opera, scoring successes in the U.S. with the Chicago Civic Opera in the '20s and New York's Metropolitan Opera in the early '40s, and later in concerts, to which he turned in his 60s to pursue an only slightly less vigorous career; of diabetic cardiovascular disease; in Manhattan...
Died. Henry Dixon Cowell, 68, U.S. composer and musical pioneer who remained blithely unconcerned about the many storms that raged around his slambang, fist-and-forearm "tone cluster" piano technique in the '20s and '30s and, declaring that modern composers "can't beat Beethoven at his own game," went on to pursue his vigorous ideas in more than 1,000 pieces, which he scored for everything from Pyrex bowls to lyre-like Japanese kotos; of uremia; in Shady...