Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...including six symphonies. More widely recognized as a performer, he made 3,000 concert appearances during his 50-year career, as well as at least 30 recordings. Included in his concert repertory were several seldom performed compositions, three-piano concertos that Casadesus played with his wife Gaby and elder son Jean, who died in an automobile accident earlier this year...
...hero comes by his chosen profession naturally enough. His father, a former competition driver, is a motor-racing journalist and broadcaster. His mother, who named her son after Ralph Waldo Emerson, has raced sports cars. His older brother Wilson, 28, also races on the Grand Prix circuit. The elder Fittipaldis tried to interest their sons in a less violent form of racing-in sailboats. It did not work. "We always finished last," Emerson remembers. "We were a disaster sailing." Last is a position Emerson is not likely to see in his accelerating career on the road...
...Door. Sanford is built around the love-hate relationship of a black father and son who run a junk business in Los Angeles. But it is no Family in blackface. Its humor plays with prejudices rather than on them. "Were they colored?" the police asked the elder Sanford about a gang of thieves in an early episode. "Yeah," he replied. "White." The old man, played by Redd Foxx, has none of Archie's anger. He is simply an engaging con artist who will resort to any ruse to keep his son from quitting the business and leaving home...
...call Norman "the laziest white kid I ever saw" and order his wife to "stifle"-both expressions that were to become Archie's. The family shifted restlessly from New Haven, Conn., where Norman was born, to nearby Hartford, then to Boston and New York City, as the elder Lear pursued a variety of get-rich-quick schemes with a lot of gall but little success. Norman decided to become a pressagent like his uncle Jack, "the only relative on either side of my family who could throw a nephew a quarter when he visited...
...that the building boom inflated wages and there contractors bids. The bid for Gund Hall was given to Moses Slotnick a 1927 graduate of the Business School in August 1969. According to Doebele Slotnick had planned to finish the building in August 1971 but the death of the elder Slotnick delayed its completion...