Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Age of Uncertainty, Galbraith...
...customs of stardom clung to her even after death. In the obituaries of Joan Crawford, who died of a heart attack last week, some newspapers felt compelled to note a certain confusion about her age. Officially it was listed as 69, but she may have been several years older. It was characteristic of her that at a time of life when two or three years no longer make any difference to most people, Joan Crawford insisted on the smallest believable number...
...habit of the profession whose code she helped to shape, and let there be no doubt about what that profession was. It was stardom. This is not to say that she was not, on occasion, an effective actress. It is to suggest that acting - like shading her age or flattering her fan clubs with personal attention or fighting the studio bosses for strong roles or making sure her eyebrows were properly plucked - was part of the larger job of being a star...
Bach: Partitas No. 1 in B-Flat and No. 2 in C-Minor. (Igor Kipnis harpsichordist, Angel.) As musical forms go, the Baroque suite or partita was in its old age when Bach decided to have the final word on the subject. He not only included every kind of dance movement previously used (saraband, gigue, minuet) but also introduced some that had not been: capriccio, rondeau and scherzo. The French style of ornamentation, so essential a part of this music, is something Harpsichordist Igor Kipnis has long since mastered. His mordents, appoggiaturas and other embellishments have the ring...
...novel was greeted with raves, big sales and a National Book Award. Critics invoked Crane, Hemingway and Wolfe when writing about the veteran's furious, gritty depiction of the U.S. Army as it was just before World War II. Yet at Jones' death last week at age 55, of congestive heart failure, it could be said that in writing, as in soldiering, advancement seemed somehow beyond...