Word: jans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophomore Dave Silver swept to two wins in the dives last weekend against fairly good Army opponents, and Gerdon Jones and Jan Milligan of Navy are likely to be even less of a challenge to Silver who has excellent backup help from Dick Eisenberg and Tom Wallace...
...this certitude, Yahya is about to undertake the most fundamental political changes in Pakistan since Britain granted it independence 22 years ago. On Jan. 1, such political activities as rallies and speeches will once again be permitted. By June, electoral rolls are to be brought up to date to include 60 million eligible Pakistanis 21 years old or over. On Oct. 5, in Pakistan's first nationwide elections, voters in West and East Pakistan will choose about 300 delegates to a constitutional convention. Yahya has given the delegates 120 days to write a constitution; if they do not succeed...
...unspecified wrinkles about working conditions remain to be smoothed out. Flashes of temperamental lightning could still postpone or even wreck the whole proceeding. Nonetheless, both management and the artists have started trying to scrape together a new Met season, and it could get under way either Dec. 29 or Jan...
...Believer. An intense nationalist who had a Pan-Slavic fascination with Russia-one reason why his work is exceptionally popular in the Soviet Union -Janáček was a bitter atheist. "A church is concentrated death," he once said. "Tombs under the floor, bones on the altar, pictures that are nothing but torture and dying. Death and nothing but death. I don't want to have anything to do with it." Atheist or not, Janáček had a profoundly spiritual appreciation of the value of life. One of his most powerful compositions is the Slavonic Mass...
...Janáček's work has been kept alive over the years by a handful of conductors such as Rafael Kubelik of Munich's Radio Orchestra and Charles Mackerras of London's Sadler's Wells Opera. Another devoted fan is Walter Susskind of the St. Louis Symphony, who remembers Janáček from his student days in Prague. He compares Janáček's originality with that of America's Charles Ives. Like Ives, Janacek was a weird, lonely figure who owed little to his musical ancestors and had no true...