Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon). In the case of the "New World" Symphony, familiarity has bred lack of imagination: conductors tend to blast through the great crescendos and wallow in the well-known themes. Not Giulini, however, whose byword is subtlety. The Chicago's famous brass is brilliant, not blaring, and Giulini achieves unexpected nuances of color and volume. Those who prefer their "New World" brooding and Slavic should stick with Stokowski's various recordings, but those with an ear for freshness will like this interpretation...
Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed...
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...tenth anniversary of everything," as it was described, Richie Havens and Arlo Guthrie wailed protest songs. Daniel Ellsberg, Daniel Berrigan, Eugene McCarthy and Cesar Chavez spoke out against nuclear warfare. This blast from the past drew 10,000 people to the Hollywood Bowl for "Survival Sunday-a Festival for a Future," sponsored by 60 religious and political groups. Its aim? To support the United Nations' first special session on disarmament, which opened last week. Ellsberg said the meeting's goal was "to save the earth and everything that lives on it." Jesuit Priest Berrigan was not sanguine about...
Wages. In its first public blast at a labor negotiation, Bosworth's COWPS condemned as "clearly inflationary" a 25.5% three-year wage offer that West Coast employers presented to 21,000 pulp-and-paper mill workers. Both Bosworth and Charles Schultze, the President's chief economic adviser, fear that labor is coming to take for granted annual 10% wage increases. Unless the trend is reversed, says Bosworth, "we might as well forget about decelerating inflation any time in the near future...