Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This extreme shift in attitude over the years parallels the drastic changes in Kingsberg's position on the field...
Belated and drastic, but unavoidable. That is the majority opinion of TIME'S Board of Economists about the Federal Reserve Board's severe credit-tightening moves. Only one of the ten board members flatly opposed the new policy. The rest generally thought the Fed's actions would help bring down inflation at last, though slowly, at the price of a recession that most still believe will be less severe than the 1973-75 slump, but deeper than was thought a few months ago. Several cautioned, however, that continued turbulence in financial markets and the economy make...
...majority of the clerics still favor nonviolence. How does the so-called Christian left, then, justify violent action? "Effective love of neighbor sometimes requires drastic measures," one of the movement's priests told TIME. "Our decision to go for armed struggle was forced upon us. It has become clear this is not a reformist government. It is a fascist government...
...even more bruising blow: the defection in Switzerland last week of Figure Skating Champions Oleg Protopopov, 47, and Ludmila Belousova, 43. So alarmed were Soviet officials over the rash of recent defections that they canceled a scheduled 28-concert U.S. tour by the Moscow State Symphony. Before the drastic decision was made, the orchestra's U.S. booking agent, Samuel Niefeld, was suddenly summoned to Moscow. Niefeld was reportedly asked to give "guarantees" that there would be no defections from the orchestra. Obviously Moscow was as dissatisfied with his reply as it was distrustful of the orchestra's loyalty...
...most inspired passages spliced together from each opera, with the gaps in the music and plot filled in either by stage gimmickry or by Sellars' own entertaining, if self-conscious, narration. He uses good commercial recordings of the works, and provides surprisingly good reproduction for them. The cutting is drastic, though, and will disturb those who know the music too well. Sir Thomas Beecham used to complain of the "bleeding chunks of Wagner" played by symphony orchestras as excerpts; Sellars' adaptations are hamburger meat...