Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eighth Day, Wilder...
...Based on two years' study by a citizens advisory council, the Northern San Joaquin Valley Supplementary Education Center developed a proposal for preparing programmed learning materials for sixth, eighth-and tenth-grade students. Each student will get individual instruction through a self-teaching device including a recorded presentation, slides or a film strip and programmed text...
...musical resurrection is all the more impressive in view of the practical and esthetic difficulties that bristle throughout his work. Most of his symphonies are so long that they take up an entire concert, often require more than 100 instrumentalists and at least that many singers (his Eighth Symphony is scored for as many as 1,000 musicians). Folk tunes, military marches and café ditties jostle each other in the symphonies-sometimes with deliberately sarcastic effect-against rich, romantic textures and harsher lines that range out boldly to the limits of traditional tonality. Mahler plunges the listener from surging...
Naked Nerves. Why does this appeal so powerfully to modern audiences? U.S. Critic Jack Diether points to the "existentialist" strain in Mahler: "He is the only composer who looked into our whole civilization, who questioned the whole basis of our existence." Says Rafael Kubelik, who conducted Mahler's Eighth at Vienna last week: "He's a sufferer who forces man to look into a mirror. He exposes naked nerves." The Angst, as well as the questing spirit of Mahler's music, no doubt explains its special meaning for today's college-age youth, who are among...
...this year. At one time or another since the season began, every team except two (Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins) has led the league or at least shared the lead. The farthest anybody has been in front is two games, and the spread between the first-place Detroit Tigers and eighth place last week was only seven games. Even the New York Yankees, who finished dead last in 1966, were playing .500 ball...