Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatness of Bach has been recognized for more than a century. But in all likelihood no prior age has better appreciated the true nature of his gifts. Musicologists have brought his works into clearer focus by editing his scores and clarifying their historic and esthetic background. Today's performers, heirs to the Baroque revival of recent decades, have a better sense of 18th century style, and instinctively reject the romantic excesses of the past. The advent of the LP has created a vast new audience for Bach, as it has for other composers; but Bach is a special beneficiary...
...single worldly triumph crowned Bach's old age. King Frederick the Great of Prussia, a gifted amateur musician, invited him to the court at Potsdam. When he arrived, Frederick immediately dismissed his minions, exclaiming: "Old Bach is here!" The two then spent an evening together, and Bach delighted Frederick by improvising a fugue on one of Frederick's themes. After returning home, Bach wrote an extensive chamber cycle on the same theme and sent it to Frederick with the title Musical Offering. Soon after this, Bach's overworked eyes as well as his rugged constitution began...
...York Stock Exchange, the belwether Dow-Jones industrial aver age advanced strongly after President Johnson announced on March 31 that he would not run for re-election and that he was making new overtures to end the Viet Nam war. The average sagged in August but soon rebounded in what brokers called "Nixon rallies." At year's end, the index was approaching its historic peak of 995.15, set in February...
During 13 years as the steel industry's chief spokesman, U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough has become one of the best known American business men-if not the most conspicuously successful one. When Blough steps down next month at the mandatory retirement age of 65, he will leave behind an industry with a stodgy image and a company with a spotty record. In his tenure, U.S. Steel's share of domestic steel sales has slipped from 30% to 25%. Last week, hoping to reverse that trend sharply, the world's largest steelmaker picked a new management...
...marriage gone irretrievably bad. She examines relentlessly the small social grievances, the resentful pinprick rivalries that gradually engulf and demean everyone concerned. In the orgiastic 1960s, Ruskin's sexual abstinence would be regarded for Effie as a fate only slightly better than death. Effie lived in an age inclined to view "all that" more as a duty than a cheerful privilege, however, and she knew little of sex when she married...