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...bold musical motives deriving partly from the sounds of the ancient Church Slavonic language ("Glagolitic" is the name given to its written form). From the first brassy fanfare, Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik leads the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and Chorus in a rousing performance, with brilliant singing by Soprano Evelyn Lear and Tenor Ernst Haefliger...
...lure of this high volume has brought several major companies into the stereotape market, is increasing pressure for standardization. RCA Victor, which will record tapes for Ford, has selected a cartridge system developed by Wichita's Lear Jet Corp., recently demonstrated it in Manhattan to 40 other recording companies in a pitch for adoption of an industry standard. On the strength of Ford orders, Lear has set up a separate division in Detroit to manufacture its tapes and cartridges. Motorola, which is building the dashboard players for Ford, is already working on the next stage of cartridge stereo-tape...
While at Harvard, Scott played nearly twenty roles ranging from a Tennessee Williams teenager to the octogenarian King Lear. He was the first person in America to play Maurice in Genet's Deathwatch, and his recreation of the part in New York won him an Obie award. The New York critics named him Most Promising Actor of the Year for his 1960 Broadway performance in The Cool World...
...Detroit's history. Corporation giants were falling all over themselves in making plans for capital investment in 1965. "I've never seen people so optimistic," said Robert H. Stewart III, president of Dallas' First National Bank. Declared John Brooks, board chairman of Santa Monica's Lear Siegler, Inc., manufacturers of aerospace products, air conditioners and TV equipment: "There is little doubt that our present economy is strong. Tax reductions did stimulate industry and help business last year. We will continue to be aided this year by a further tax reduction." Mused Los Angeles Sportswear Manufacturer Richard...
...living flesh on a deadpan, reach down the throat of a corpse and come up with a ghastly guffaw. His language is bare, strong, lucid, manly: perhaps the most intensely concentrated prose ever written in English. In energy he is the last Elizabethan; not even Shakespeare's Lear surpasses the vigor of Swift's invective or the reach of his rage. In conscience he is the first Victorian; not until Dickens did Britain produce a major writer who so fiercely cried out against man's inhumanity...