Word: fatedness
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As the Czechoslovaks so painfully learned in 1968, the ultimate trial of a reform plan in the East bloc is whether it passes muster with the Kremlin. Since Hungary is embarked on an economic reform that in some respects is similar to Prague's ill-fated experiment, Hungarians and...
Long Night. The change represented a new awakening for China. In economic terms, the world's most populous nation has lain asleep for the past dozen years. The long night began in 1958, when Mao launched his ill-fated Great Leap Forward. His nation had barely recovered from that...
But Barbirolli's career was long, and certainly distinguished. Educated at the Royal Academy of Music, he was a successful cellist while scarcely out of his teens. In his early twenties, he began his conducting career, first as a choral conductor, then as a conductor with the British National Opera...
OTHER musical figures passed away this summer. Among them was Jonel Perlea, an ill-fated man whose promise as a conductor was never fulfilled. A dedicated teacher and inspired conductor, the fates seemed to conspire against his ever achieving the success which he deserved.
The race, which was eventually won by a cheerful merchant navy officer named Robin Knox-Johnston, had been sponsored by the London Sunday Times. Two Times reporters. Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall, took on the task of deciphering the record of the only contestant-out of nine-who did not...