Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME, Dec. 23, 1974). Now, the same service has been done for Constable, with an exhibition of 335 of his paintings, drawings and watercolors, organized for the Tate Gallery in London by three art historians, Leslie Parris, Ian Fleming-Williams and Conal Shields. It celebrates Constable's 200th birthday and is the largest showing of his work ever. For the first time, one can see the whole man under one roof-from the juvenilia (a graffito he scratched on a beam in the family mill when he was 16) and memorabilia, to the grand series of 6-ft. landscapes...
...letter, addressed to all Lockheed employees, announcing their resignation. It referred to "the cascading waves of criticism and outright attack that Lockheed and its management have been subjected to" and called for "a new standard of international business conduct." Haughton had been scheduled to retire on his 65th birthday in September, but Kotchian, 61, might have been expected to succeed...
...Francisco Opera House provided the setting, and Carole King provided the entertainment at her own 35th birthday celebration last week. Now making her first concert tour in three years, the Brooklyn-born singer-composer (Where You Lead; You 've Got a Friend) starred in an S.R.O. performance before 3,400 fans. She had more to toast than just the passing of another year. While King sang in San Francisco, her 1971 album Tapestry celebrated its 254th week on Billboard magazine's top albums chart. Its worldwide sales so far: more than 13 million...
Charles Ives: Holidays Symphony (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor; RCA; $6.98). The holidays are Washington's Birthday (winter), Decoration Day (spring), the Fourth of July (summer) and Thanksgiving (autumn). Ives, the great American innovator, originally composed this symphony as four separate pieces, starting in 1897. Some 16 years later he fused them to make a series of aural reminiscences of his boyhood holidays in Danbury, Conn. Firecrackers explode, a village band escorts the parade to the cemetery to decorate graves, fancy fiddling and a twanging Jew's-harp reverberate through a winter barn dance. Turkey in the Straw...
...simply the reminiscence of an acolyte still spellbound after all these years. "Isn't it understandable that even now the image of the enthusiastic Hitler comes to mind?" he writes, early on. Later a guard marks a significant milestone. Speer writes: "Today would be Hitler's birthday. How many birthdays I spent with Hitler in the Berlin chancellery, with delegations paying homage to him, with grandiose parades!" He recalls his mother's observation of evenings spent at a mountain castle: "Hitler was terribly nice. But such a parvenu world!" He broods on the fact that he suddenly...