Word: blakely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Patricia Blake, Tom Callahan, John S. DeMott, William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Gregory Jaynes, Marguerite Johnson, James Kelly, Richard N. Ostling, Jay D. Palmer, Sue Raffety, J. D. Reed, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, Evan Thomas, Anastasia Toufexis, Claudia Wallis, Michael Walsh...
...week's end Philadelphians no longer had to go out of town to dispose of their trash. Garbage haulers decided to go back to work after Common Pleas Court Judge Edward J. Blake declared that some 2,400 strikers and their leaders were in contempt for ignoring his back-to-work order earlier in the week. Blake had ruled that the garbage constituted a "clear and present danger" to the public health and that the strikers should start cleaning up the mess. Mayor W. Wilson Goode then announced that he could hire 2,400 sanitation workers in 24 hours...
...Credit Suisse Ltd. in the Bahamas, Wilkis conducted some 50 trades using inside information, according to the Government. Along the way, he transferred assets to other banks in the Cayman Islands, controlling the money through still more institutions in Liberia and the Bahamas and using the code name Mr. Blake. Later, under the name of Alan Darby, Wilkis talked with Levine, who called himself Mike Schwartz, about various insider-trading opportunities. Sokolow, who did not know Wilkis, began in 1981 to supply Levine with information about the pending actions of Shearson Lehman's corporate clients...
With several hundred proud parents and siblings in attendance, a fifteen-minute address by a Freeman Dyson, a physicist and noted author highlighted the society's 200th annual Commencement-time gathering. Dyson's remarks, which drew on the writings of William Blake and of 17th century author Richard Hakluyt, concerned man's tradition of exploration and the implications of that tradition for the use of space...
Bolcom's concerto is indeed that. The composer is probably better known as the peerless accompanist for his wife Mezzo Joan Morris in their programs of American popular songs. But his spacious cantata on Blake poems, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, was in contention for 1985's Pulitzer Prize for Music and should have won. The concerto, although on a smaller, less ambitious scale, is typically eclectic in its welding of disparate musical materials into a distinctive, stylish whole. There is a vigorous first movement, which tips its hat to the opening of the Bartok Second Violin Concerto...