Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The first signs of the impending disaster came slowly: increases in the cost of oil and gasoline, reductions in voltage delivered by power companies during peak hours, and occasional dim-outs. But then the pace accelerated as the Government began rationing essential fuels and exhorted the public to forsake private...
Then the money-lack of which had put the orchestra on a disaster alert prior to Solti's arrival-began to come in Annual donations by individuals rose dramatically from $425,919 in 1968 to $1,607,846 last year, corporate contributions from $60,000 in 1966 to $500...
Outraged. Though Solti first visited the U.S. in 1953 to conduct the San Francisco Opera, it was not until 1960 that he was offered an American orchestra. The experience was a disaster. Solti was hired by the Los Angeles Philharmonic as chief conductor, only to learn that a young conductor...
Kilgore Trout. The geography of Vonnegut's universe extends from the inferno of Dresden, where he underwent the fire-raids of World War II (Slaughterhouse-Five), to the purgatory of Ilium, alias Schenectady, N.Y., where he labored unhappily as a public relations man for General Electric (Player Piano). It...
A connection is made. Dwayne Hoover goes on a rampage against all the people whom he once thought to be the inviolable guardians of his worldly prison. He attacks his son at the piano, he attacks his mistress and breaks her ribs, he attacks a woman novelist newly arrived for...