Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to read Shakespeare to know that the nature of tragedy is ironic--how something sad can be bittersweet, how an act as pragmatically final as death can be a beginning, how the horror of the premature end of someone's life can recall so many wonderful memories...
Carter has said he will veto the tax credit in favor of the College Opportunity Act, which expands existing Federal aid programs. The plan, similar to one Carter presented to Congress last fall, increases from $16,000 to $25,000 the maximum family income level for which the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) would be available, and boosts the maximum grant at each income level. The plan also adds more funds to the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG), which is distributed to students by individual colleges, and to the College Work Study Program, which provides federally-subsidized jobs for college...
...grown as quickly as consumer advocates had expected, they are considered the likeliest means of giving the middle class legal protections now enjoyed by increasing numbers of the poor (through legal aid programs) and the rich (who can afford to pay for private service). The 1976 Tax Reform Act excluded from an employee's taxable income both employer contributions to a group legal plan and the value of legal services. Under the terms of the act, the Internal Revenue Ser vice this spring gave a green light to the largest venture yet: a United Auto Workers group legal plan that...
DIED. Louis Prima, 66, jazz trumpeter and gravel-voiced singer and bandleader; after lingering in a coma for three years; in New Orleans. With his wife, Singer Keely Smith, he staged a raucous nightclub act that made the couple Las Vegas headliners until their divorce...
...electronic music at Oxford, composed his Duchess for an undergraduate production in 1971 and revised it last year. The opera opens with a blaring cacophony of brasses and winds. Voice and orchestra lines seem to begin and end with little regard for each other. Only once, in the final act, does Oliver use a straightforward melodic passage. A chorus of madmen, a ghoulish group in feathers and rags, sings an elegant baroque masque to the imprisoned Duchess (Soprano Pamela Myers). The contrast between stately chords and hideous faces is terrifying...