Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Frederick Hauck, who flew on a 1988 Discovery shuttle mission with...
...unique feature of Galway's concerts is the introduction he makes before each piece he performs. These are usually humorous bits giving a brief history of the work. Examples include the tale of the Emperor and flute addict Frederick the Great and his teacher Quantz, which introduced the Bach Sonata in E major for Flute and Basso Continuo, (BWV 1035) and the dangerous nature of dancing in the baroque period, which introduced Couperin's La Pie'montoise. According to Galway, one wrong movement of the finger could cause a person to literally lose his or her head. These comic lectures...
...rich crop of new parenting books--to no one's surprise, at least in the book-publishing business. The result of a "baby boomlet" is an 18-and-under generation that rivals the boomers in number. Their parents, moreover, are not only procreative, they're literate. Says Heather Vogel Frederick of Publishers Weekly: "This is a print-oriented generation of parents, and publishers are really capitalizing on that fact...
...with the assistance of Clayborne Carson Jr., a Stanford University professor who edited King's papers. Sadly, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Warner Books, 400 pages, $25) does not deliver the sort of revealing self-examination that characterizes such powerful memoirs as the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass or The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Instead it reads exactly like what it is: a cut-and-paste job, assembled by Carson mainly from King's previously published books and speeches, that glosses over some of the most important episodes in the civil rights leader's remarkable career...
Roth says only minimal changes were made in the exhibit, though the catalog now includes several additional essays critical of Freud. Swales, who bridles at suggestions that he wanted the show killed, still thinks "the public has been terribly shortchanged." But another prominent Freud critic, Frederick Crews, who called the original effort a "propaganda campaign" in need of rehauling, says Roth has so far made impressive "good-faith efforts" to create a balance...