Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herbert Stein, 52, will become a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Stein, who holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago, which is known for its conservative economics faculty, does not fit easily into any ideological category, claims: "I'm the conservatives' liberal and the liberals' conservative." He favors reliance on free markets, but at the same time believes the Government is responsible for avoiding the extremes of poverty. Currently, he is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and chief economic consultant for the Committee for Economic Development, a research organization...
...Hall. And in New York, as in other major capitals, the coming weeks will see a performance of Bach's undoubted masterpiece, the B-Minor Mass-a work that he began as a tribute to the Catholic King of Poland, but which in its final form did not fit either the Catholic or the Lutheran liturgy. In English-speaking countries, the wide-ranging appeal of such performances threatens even Handel's oratorio Messiah as a holiday staple. "If you want a full house now," says the London Times Critic William Mann, "you put on Bach...
...Bach's work-which is one reason why he is so often the favorite composer of mathematicians and scientists. But his music also throbs with a living pulse; his rhythms and harmonic modulations, however controlled, evolve with a seeming spontaneity. His endlessly inventive melodies, however neatly they fit into a scheme, rise and fall and intertwine with a lyrical life of their own. The most solid of his constructions are nevertheless charged with energy and intensity. And as Robert Shaw points out, his lines serve not only to fill in the structure but also to define thoughts or emotions...
...definition, an inventor is someone who converts fancies into facts. A man who turns fancies into facts and then facts into entire industries is much more. He may even be deserving of that overworked word: genius. The description seems to fit Peter Goldmark, 62, president and head of research for CBS Labs. Goldmark built the world's first practical color TV system in 1940 and invented the long-playing record in 1948. His latest discovery may well touch off an even greater electronic convulsion. In Manhattan last week, he displayed the first operating model of Electronic Video Recording...
Open Holes. The new programs will fit into scheduling holes opened up by the imminent demise of several series, most of which are less than a year old and never caught on. NBC is dropping The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show. CBS is losing Daktari and Blondie. ABC is dumping The Don Rickles Show, The Ugliest Girl in Town, Journey to the Unknown, The Felony Squad and Operation: Entertainment. The network is also jettisoning The Dick Cavett Show (TIME, March 22), one of TV's most literate daytime programs, which rarely ranked higher than 35th among the 35 daytime shows...