Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But even if Bach realized that his music would last, he surely could not have imagined the changes posterity would make. Director of the Electronic Music Studio Ivan A. Tcherepnin said, "Bach showed a lot of foresight by not specifying instruments, tempo, or dynamics in some of his works. It...
to express my displeasure . . ." Adding to the turmoil was the fact that the Carmelites had revised their charter at Rome's initiative. The Vatican, complained an exasperated nun, "has summarily dismissed an experiment which it ordered these women to undertake, and is now accusing them of infidelity for doing so...
Another Andropov reform that has persisted is the so-called Five Ministries program, which took effect in January 1984. Under this plan, which now encompasses 2,300 factories and service centers, managers in designated industries such as heavy machinery and electrical equipment were given greater latitude in setting their goals...
The pace of reform slowed under the leadership of Chernenko but, significantly, did not stop. An additional 16 regional party secretaries were replaced; sporadic anticorruption campaigns continued. The Five Ministries experiment was expanded.
As Government officials, doctors and theologians debated the ethics of Copeland's actions, Creighton's mother and sister made their feelings clear. They thanked the doctor and the hospital staff for doing "everything within their human power to give him a life" and expressed the hope that the Phoenix heart...