Word: gem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bust-to-boom turnaround in Botswana began in 1967 with the discovery of the world's second largest diamond "pipe," a gem-rich geological formation nearly a mile across. The government's part ownership with De Beers Consolidated Mines, plus tax receipts from diamond exports, earned the country some $25 million last year, but that was only the beginning. Geologists reckon that the pipe may be good for 500 years of mining, and they have discovered a second one 30 miles away whose diamond deposits could be even more profitable...
...year the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has devoted a week-long festival to Still and other black composers. Columbia Records has issued the first four albums of an ambitious new black-composers series. One of the LPs offers Still's Afro-American Symphony (1930), a prismatically scored, blues-flavored gem and, incidentally, the first symphony ever written by a black American. Last week in Jackson, Miss., the only professional black opera company in the U.S., a 3½-year-old group called Opera/South, presented the world premiere of Still's 33-year-old opera A Bayou Legend...
HAROLD PINTER'S Old Times is an unimpeachable dramatic gem. Precisely its gem-like qualities--hardness, multi-faceted symmetry, elegant economy of design, deep translucence--can easily displease an audience unaccustomed to them. But those who come to the Loeb Ex, tonight or Saturday, with open eyes and a willingness to work a bit will be rewarded for their efforts...
...something like Ives's music, resolutely refusing "to let the ears lie back in an easy chair," insisting on testing everything by the transcendental standards, unconcerned with conventional consonance, that timider people set aside. The tunes everyone had known as a child would probably meet the standards--"Columbia Gem of the Ocean" and "Rock of Ages" were always popping up in Ives's music--and so might something entirely new, some quarter-tone creation uncorrupted by respectability or qualifying compromises. They'd both have to meet the same standards, though. They could be lumped together, and if the juxtaposition sounded...
...Goalie A Gem...