Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forms, theory, cities and their musical traditions, instruments, musical sociology and institutions. A generation of scholarship has enhanced the reputations of such composers as Monteverdi, Palestrina, Lassus, Josquin, Vivaldi, Cimarosa and Donizetti. Entries on such late 19th century romantics as Bruckner and Mahler have been greatly expanded; the 20th century giant Stravinsky gets 30 columns of biography and discussion vs. nine in Grove...
...this sketchy, real-life story--really no more than two incidents--director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Bo Goldman have fashioned a movie of extraordinary warmth and affection. Melvin and Howard is a neon Vermeer, a sensitive and funny look at the absurdities of late 20th-century American life in the far west. Demme looks at this amiable lug chased by a pot of gold not with condescension, but with wondrous incomprehension...
...polarization of the Arab world has cast a pall over a planned 20th anniversary celebration for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Originally scheduled to be held in Baghdad this month, the event was canceled two weeks ago because of the hostilities. The war also dimmed prospects for an Arab League summit meeting, planned for Nov. 25 in Amman. Seven Arab foreign ministers gathered in the Jordanian capital last week to draw up an agenda, but produced little more than vague declarations on the need for "pan-Arab good will...
...From his home in exile in Egypt, Reza Pahlavi, the elder son of the late Shah, last week marked his 20th birthday by proclaiming himself Shah of Iran and calling on his countrymen to join forces in ending the "nightmare" wrought by the Iraqi invasion and the revolution that ousted his father from the Peacock Throne...
Daniel M. Pallotta '83, co-director of the Harvard Hunger Action Committee (HHAC), said 45 to 50 per cent of Harvard undergraduates are expected to fast on November 20th...