Word: leonard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poverty program everywhere could get returns at Jones's rate, it would be a stunning achievement. Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal contends that the American poor are the greatest underdeveloped market in the world. Psychiatrist Leonard Duhl, planning chief of the National Institute of Mental Health, looks forward to the poor learning "the value of books and good music and even wine...
SCHUMANN: FOUR SYMPHONIES (Columbia). In recording Schumann's symphonies as they were originally orchestrated, Leonard Bernstein has compiled a catalogue of the composer's many moods. He deals decisively with the complicated polyphonic structure that Schumann imposed upon his gentle, lyric thoughts and puts the composer-whimsical, sad, angry-across without blurring overlaps of Teutonic bravura...
...Newspapers have too long given a negative picture of Negroes," says Publisher W. Leonard Evans Jr., 50. "We want to provide a balanced picture." Evans also hopes to win white readers, who constitute an estimated 15% of Tuesday's audience. Published in Chicago and selectively distributed, Tuesday is delivered to Negro areas, integrated neighborhoods and some white suburbs. Says Evans: "We're not interested in a social crusade, but we want to start a constructive dialogue...
...Samuel Barber and Paul Hindemith test Stern's talents in contrasting ways. For Barber, the violin must gently caress the lush phrases and clearly sing the profusion of simple melodies. With Hindemith, the instrument becomes one of dark conflict. Stern is superbly in control of both, as is Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic...
...Swore in an old friend, Washington Lawyer Leonard Marks, as director of the U.S. Information Agency, declaring: "We are neither advocates nor defenders of any dogma so fragile or doctrine so frightened as to require propaganda. Truth wears no uniform and bears no flag. But it is the most loyal ally that freedom knows...