Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business suit racing through New York City was Vice President Walter Mondale, stumping in behalf of local Democratic candidates. One of Mondale's more leisurely stops, however, was at a $100-a-plate dinner to honor Martin Luther King Sr., 77, and to raise funds for the Center for Social Change, headed by Coretta King. Among the 2,000 present: U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, New York City Mayor Abe Beame and New York Governor Hugh Carey. The program, which included a reading of Martin Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech by Actor Paul Winfield, ended with...
...tuned up and ready to blow, the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington waited on the stage of the austere concert hall at the John F. Kennedy Center. A cheerful cherub of a man walked swiftly to the podium and smiled at the audience. His face was a pale Russian winter's landscape, his blue eyes shone mischievously. He turned toward his colleagues and, with a sturdy slash of his baton, launched into a high-speed, raucous overture that seemed to roil the Potomac. It was strictly show-biz razzmatazz, a pastiche stitched together by Leonard Bernstein from his 1976 musical...
...ever promised so much. For years the capital's music-lovers have felt ignored. The great performers of the world passed through for one-nighters somewhere en route between New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston and even downtown Cleveland. But with the opening of the Kennedy Center in 1971, enterprising managers began to book extended dates for the artists, and today Washington has become one of the obligatory stops for any major musician or musical group that goes on the road...
...Benjamin Britten, Lukas Foss, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev. In the Soviet Union alone, innumerable compositions were dedicated to him. This burgeoning literature, as well as the example of Rostropovich himself, has encouraged a new generation of fine young cellists, who have moved from deep inside the orchestra to center stage...
...developed mathematical models of a class of systems he termed "dissipative structures," which could dissipate energy at the same time they were organizing themselves and growing in size and complexity. Chemical confirmation of his theory did not come as a surprise to Prigogine, who is also director of the Center for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics at the University of Texas, Austin. Nor did last week's prize. "The professor more or less expected this reward," said a colleague. "It was in the normal course of things...