Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between black and white children in the U.S., according to Jensen. Says he: "There is no way to discriminate or distinguish between the average ten-year-old black and the average 8½-year-old white. The tests look the same, but the black child has a lower mental age. It looks more like a developmental lag than a cultural difference...
...years of Larsen's presidency at Time Inc. were marked by steady growth. Among other projects, he guided the launching of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in 1954. Larsen and Luce once thought of making 45 the mandatory retirement age at the firm, but settled on the customary 65. Larsen became the only executive to be exempt from that rule (Luce retired from active management upon turning 66, three years before his death in 1967). In later years Larsen became a source of thoughtful counsel and new ideas. He kept himself avidly well informed. Says TIME-LIFE Films President Bruce Paisner...
Others do. The Pavarotti voice inspires some opera buffs to evoke the pre-World War I Golden Age, and others to proclaim a new one. "It's a phenomenal instrument, one of those freaks of nature that come very rarely in a hundred years," says Conductor Richard Bonynge. Clear and penetrating, it has a brilliant, metallic timbre and yet remains warm, with a gorgeous romantic sheen. Pavarotti supports it with a taut, energizing column of air that keeps the tone uniform from top to bottom; ins notes have been described as a set of "perfectly matched pearls...
Vocally, Pavarotti in recent years has skillfully negotiated the most treacherous shoals that face a tenor. Early in his career he was a classic tenore lirico, ideally suited to lighter lyric roles like Rodolfo, and florid bel canto roles like Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore. With age, however, a tenor's voice takes on a heavier tone and darker coloration. By the time he is in his 40s, a tenore lirico is usually ready for roles in the intermediate spin to (pushed) range, like Cavaradossi in Tosca, and maybe even in the forceful, baritonal tenore drammatico category, like...
...country is approaching the otherside of the baby boom. Those first postwar children are now 33- or closer to the still common retirement age of 65 than to birth- and the balance of the economy is shifting rapidly. In the future, far fewer workers will be supporting far more retired people. In 1950 the worker-to-retiree ratio was 7.5 to 1; to day it is 5.4 to 1. By 2030, when the baby boomers will be rocking away on the veranda, the ratio will be 3.1 to 1. Under Social Security, payments from current workers back the checks that...