Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profound religious devotion pervades all of Messaien's compositions. Through superb craft, he communicates this to us in the most vivid terms. As the music slowly ascends at the sublimely peaceful ending of the Quartet, we are drawn willingly with it toward Messaein's mystic vision...
Despite her impressive showing last week, Mrs. Thatcher is not ensured a victory in the next rounds of balloting. She may have drawn a sizable number of protest votes that will now be split between the four candidates who did not enter the first round out of personal loyalty to Heath. Her strongest opponent is William Whitelaw, 56, who became party chairman last year after a universally acclaimed performance as Heath's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The jovial, bushy-browed Whitelaw's greatest asset may be his incorrigible amiability. But his critics contend that he lacks...
...Beat Bobby Fischer is a detailed anatomical study of an Achilles' heel. The Achilles is Fischer, the winningest chess master in history; of the 576 games he has played since he became U.S. champion at the incredible age of 14, he has won 327 and drawn 188. But even Fischer occasionally loses; in the past 16 years he has booted 61 games. To whom? At what age? Was he playing white or black? Did he blunder? Was he outgeneraled? Do any patterns of weakness appear? In the most intriguing chess manual of the year, Mednis ransacks all 61 games...
...young especially fascinated with the alternative worlds portrayed in the pages of Asimov. Herbert and Heinlein? Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow is a collection of fifteen essays that focuses on some of these questions and tries to provide answers. The authors of the short pieces are drawn from the top ranks of science fiction writing: Frank Herbert, Frederik Pohl, Alan E. Nourse, Poul Anderson and Jack Williamson. They bring their considerable talents to bear on the issues confronting science fiction, but the end result, while absorbing, tends to be choppy. The essays run the gamut from a discussion of science...
...million, according to the Nov. 27 1972, issue of Time. Gallo's economic strength makes it possible for the company to recruit and transport strike breakers, to conduct large0scale public relations campaigns, to bear the costs of temporary production disruption due to strikes and to involve itself in drawn-out court cases. These are all expensive operations which companies with less market control and lower profits could not afford...