Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite its somewhat circular organization and the author's cloying habit of referring to the composer as "the Master," Music at the Close is clearly an indispensable and humane book for Stravinskyites. All the uproar aside, for instance, where else could a fan learn that Stravinsky was so fond of avocados that his wife Vera invariably carried two or three ripening examples in her purse when they traveled...
...allowed if it would lift a company's profit margin-that is, its percentage of profit on each dollar of sales-above the figures for a pre-1971 base period. Moreover, Grayson asserted that the auto industry is so all-pervasive that a rise in auto prices would fan inflation throughout the economy and, more important, raise inflationary expectations among businessmen and consumers...
...National Public Affairs Center for Television (NPACT), the Public Broadcasting System's answer to the network coverage, things were a bit more sanguine. No grumble, no pique. For one thing, the New York Times sometimes acts as PBS's fan club ("Surprisingly more effective than the far more elaborate and strained productions"). For another, PBS planned to try exactly what Shannon suggested. It set out to cover the convention's official proceedings only. PBS's two-convention budget was $290,000; the commercial networks', about $20 million. Rather than compete, PBS was manifestly trying...
...Nixon is the subject of a 15-minute film narrated by old Nixon Fan Jimmy Stewart who explains: "She shows the softer side while he negotiates the somber affairs of state." Her "32 years of political partnership" are briefly detailed. Under her guidance, says Stewart, the White House has become a "social mecca" where 13,000 guests were entertained for dinner in the first two years of the Administration -a record for First Ladies. Described as a "force in her own right," Mrs. Nixon is shown on her various tours around the world as "elegant, but never aloof -reachable...
Impressed, Post Publisher Katharine Graham wrote him a fan letter. Later the paper offered him a senior job. He rushed through a media-research program he had been doing in California and came back east in 1970, first as the paper's assistant managing editor for national affairs and then, for the past year, as its "ombudsman." The latter assignment gave him a mandate to criticize-in print-the Post's performance. Last week Bagdikian, 52, abruptly resigned. Post management, he concluded, could not take the medicine it had asked him to administer...