Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last try was also the reason Joseph V. Scott of Chicago's Echlin Manufacturing Co. made the trip. In the late '60s, Scott's company tried and failed to set up a joint venture with a Japanese automaker to supply spare parts for autos exported to the U.S. As a member of the group, Scott will have the opportunity this week to make new pitches. Because of the interlocking ownerships within Japanese industry, he is not optimistic. "I am going to talk to Toyota about replacement parts," he says, "but I know that Toyota owns a portion...
Brahms: Four Serious Songs, Two Songs for Alto and Viola, Eight Lieder (Mezzo Janet Baker, Pianist André Previn; Angel). Set to biblical passages about death, suffering and love, Brahms' late songs have a stately quality that Baker's dark, resonant voice conveys perfectly. Her low notes thrill with their sad, serene beauty...
That may happen as early as this week, or as late as next month. With Maverick Murdoch back on the streets, pressure is increased on the Times and the News to resume publishing. But those newspapers seem determined to strive for a long-term solution to the press-manning issue. Says a Times executive: "The achievement of our objective is of overriding importance." All well and good. But because of Murdoch's "me-tooism," the other papers find themselves in the odd position of negotiating for him over the roar of his presses and the jingle of his advertising...
...somewhat weary Northern eye, is all the more intense and enduring because it is grounded in love. Charlotte, the mother (formidably played by Ingrid Bergman-no relation to Ingmar-in her first Swedish language film in decades), is a concert pianist, acclaimed and prosperous, sailing grandly into late middle age. Eva, the daughter (Liv Ullmann in granny glasses, with a few lines of graceful weathering allowed to be visible on her ineffable forehead), is a church organist, the wife of a country pastor, a woman soft, sweet and intelligent. They have not met in seven years, and it is evident...
...involvement with the complicated struggle to build an atomic bomb includes a conversation on pioneer nuclear physics that is a masterpiece of layman's clarity. The Navy's little-remembered but terrible defeat at the Battle of Tassafaronga is described more vividly by Wouk than by the late naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison...