Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United States, due to the dearth of government subsidies for the arts, has traditionally been at a disadvantage because of the lack of guaranteed funds.) Then, the member nations select compositions from their countries and submit them to the international jury, which includes contemporary music luminaries Gunther Schuller, Elliott Carter, Jacques Guyonnet, David Drew, and Marlos Nobre. A special effort was made this year to provide a broad cross-section of trends and countries; every member nation is represented by compositions except Iceland. Most of the works have been composed within the past five years, and none dates further back...
...most towns, a person is known by his family's reputation. "In all honesty, I will never be able to belong," says Bruce Elliott, a New Jerseyite who married a local woman and bought the Chatham hardware store. The pedigreed residents never exclude him from their conversations, he explains, but when they compare cousins and accomplishments, he has nothing to offer to match his wife's family heritage...
Carl Smart works in a furniture factory and "Stick" Elliott sells junk, but if their callings are prosaic, the men are not. They are fast rollers in the grand Southern tradition of dirt track racing: small-town versions of Rapid Roy. Up to 3,500 fans will converge on the Concord Speedway 15 miles northeast of Charlotte, N.C., on a balmy Saturday evening to watch these two "pedal-to-the-metal" drivers bump fenders as they scream around the track in their blazing fast, gloriously battered stock cars. Stick and Carl are masters of the "power slide," a dirt racing...
...Russell, Kans. (pop. 5,400), where the Senator maintains a small, red brick house, the news of Dole's selection caused a sensation. People gathered around the TV set in the Elks club and in the Ramada Inn to share in the excitement. To mark the occasion, Harold Elliott, Dole's high school basketball coach, took the clock off the living room wall and hung in its place an autographed picture of the Senator. Mrs. Carl Friesen, Dole's aunt, got out the family pictures and a folder of clippings she has been collecting for years...
...portrait of fear and failure, but their hero's softheadedness is contagious. Rick's final decision, which is to be a success on his own suffocatingly modest terms, is conveyed with a hint of melancholy but more than a suggestion of approval. Lifeguard is winningly acted-by Elliott and, especially, by Archer and Kathleen Quinlan, who appears as an infatuated teen-ager-but the people who put it all together may, like their hero, have spent a little too much time...