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...Prix du Disque, and Gramophone's Record of the Year. The latter was awarded in 1980 for their monumental 14-album set of the complete 43 Haydn piano trios, many of which were previously unavailable to the listening public. Gramophone called this work, eight years in the making, "a landmark in the history of recorded chamber music." Their Silver Anniversary recording of Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio is a current bestseller...
...scholar, but head of the information center of the Institute of Applied Research for Tropical and Subtropical Fruits in Maisons-Lafitte. Clearly mangoes and papayas have not been enough to satisfy his voracious intellect. Ariès is best known as the author of Centuries of Childhood (1962), a landmark study that demonstrated that benevolent child rearing is a relatively recent practice in the West...
...company, though, had to file long pleas with the Federal Communications Commission and wage endless court battles with AT&T before its service could be established. In landmark decisions in 1969 and 1971, the FCC allowed MCI and all other competitors to break Ma Bell's 50-year monopoly on long-distance calls. Last June a Chicago federal court ruled that AT&T had to pay MCI $1.8 billion in damages, because the telephone giant would not allow it to use AT&T lines to relay calls between 1971 and 1975. It was the biggest antitrust judgment ever...
...heyday the Barbizon was both legend and landmark. Innumerable were the tales of ardent swains who essayed in vain to penetrate the upper floors disguised as doctors or dads. Mae Sibley, a bright-eyed sprite who was the hotel's assistant manager and housemother to the girls, kept close tabs on their comings and goings. A girl needed three good references to be considered for admission, and then was graded by such criteria as family, looks, dress and demeanor...
...futility of the black-out became laughable: from the sky, presumably, you could see every slate in the roofs, every whited kerb, every contour of the naked winter flowerbeds in the park; and the lake, with its shining twists and tree-darkened islands would be a landmark for miles, yes, miles, overhead...