Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toward "Total Energy." Consolidation Coal Chairman George Love and Continental Oil Chairman Leonard McCollum had often talked about the desirability of a hookup among the nation's basic and hotly competitive fuels: coal, oil and natural gas. The two men are old pals in business and personal life. Love is also chairman of Chrysler Corp., of which McCollum is a director. They met frequently, a year ago talked business on a Mediterranean cruise aboard the private yacht of Daniel Keith Ludwig, the world's largest shipping operator. Says Love of his plans with McCollum for a merger...
...over the retail book trade in the U.S. Time-consuming TV and the faster pace of modern life, feared the booksellers, would pre-empt serious reading. The book clubs with their vast mail-order lists and, most of all, the price-cutting discount houses were challenging the conventional bookstore. Leonard Schwartz, president of Manhattan-based Brentano's, predicted that many booksellers would not survive discounting...
...LEONARD LICHTENFELD Philadelphia...
...madmen! Madmen all!" But the dividing line between madness and love is unclear, and they come, above all, because they love the musical form of poetry, the amalgam of arts, that is opera. By joining words and music, sight and sound, opera enables the audience, as Music Master Leonard Bernstein has put it, to "experience conflicting passions, contrasting moods and separate events. And because only the gods have ever been able to perceive more than one thing at a time, we are, for this short period, raised to the level of the gods...
...just a playboy or an obsessive lecher. What gives him nobility and heroism, what defines him as not simply a lecher but a rebel against God, is Mozart's music. "An F-sharp doesn't have to be considered in the mind; it scores a direct hit," Leonard Bernstein points out. "Think of King Lear in an opera. He'd be raging as no Lear could ever rage in a spoken play: in a great bass voice, with a frantic high G-flat, a howling chorus offstage, and 90 players helping...