Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regina Resnik as Dame Quickly and Graziella Sciutti as Nanetta stand out-along with the redoubtable Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who, as Falstaff, makes his voice convey everything from arrogance to cravenness to humiliation. At times the mirth seems about to explode in all directions, but Bernstein's firm hand directing the Vienna Philharmonic gathers it in and the voices taper off in the graceful, fluid way that Verdi had of ending sequences...
...they find such huge sums? For advice, most colleges turn to professional fund-raising firms, the best of which already are too busy to take on any more schools this year. The pros candidly tell a college what it can realistically hope to raise, usually scale down inflated goals, since it is psychological suicide for a drive to fail. Before mapping out a campaign, Manhattan's John Price Jones Co., Inc., a firm of fund-raising consultants, prepares a detailed statement-sometimes 300 pages long -of the college's specific needs and underlying educational philosophy, a "case" that...
...economic development if it only leads to capitalism?" a crucial New Year's newspaper editorial asked. Once the Cultural Revolution has everyone in tune with the interests of the peasants and workers, the work can go been criticized: In the long run, Mao argues, a socialist economy with a firm ideological base will surpass, any capitalist economy. the Russians have succumbed to the short-run lures of capitalism; the Chinese, Mao is convinced, must be more careful...
...President urged Congress not to "arrest the pace of progress," but he outlined little new domestic legislation. On Vietnam, he pledge merely to "stand firm." "The question is whether we can carry on when [the dangers] seem obscure and distant," he said...
...Jonsson, 65, who assembled the corporate team that converted the old Geophysical Service Inc. to electronics after World War II. Last week, having reached retirement age, Brooklyn-born Jonsson stepped down as board chairman. His successor: Patrick Eugene Haggerty, 52, who as vice president and then president during the firm's remarkable growth matched Jonsson's financial know-how with his own expertise in electrical engineering. Haggerty will stay on as chief executive officer, but will be replaced as president by Mark Shepherd Jr., 43, executive vice president since 1961. As for Jonsson, Texas Instrument's biggest...