Word: lifework
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Much of his music, by his own testimony, "derives from a time and place different than ours-from ancient principles and ancient cultures. The study of Eastern music is my lifework." A largely self-taught composer, Hovhaness owes more to the ragas of India and the folk dances of his father's native Armenia than to the European modernists under whose influence most U.S. composers are reared. In the streets of India and the theaters of Japan, says Hovhaness, he heard oblique echoes of his own work...
...world's great success stories. The founder of the family fortunes was Jamsetji Tata (1839-1904), son of a Bombay merchant. Jamsetji went to England to study industrial techniques, went back to India and started a cotton mill. The mill grew into other enterprises. To cap his lifework, Jamsetji dreamed of starting an iron and steel mill. He died before his plans could be carried out, but three years later, in 1907, his sons started such a mill. Informed of their plans, Sir Frederick Upcott, chairman of the board of Indian Railways, said that Indians were incapable of making...
Franco Marinotti, 66, is a stout, energetic Italian who considers painting his lifework and business a mere sideline. As a painter, whose work bears the name Francesco Torri,* he has achieved critical acclaim throughout Italy for his craftsmanlike landscapes. But it is at his sideline that Franco Marinotti excels. As president of Milan's mammoth Snia Viscosa, he has almost singlehanded turned a tottering business into one of Italy's ten largest corporations and one of the world's biggest textile combines. Last year, with 60 plants turning out textiles in seven countries, Snia Viscosa was worth...
LONDON'S Royal Academy, like most academies, tends toward the safe, the sure and the mediocre. Yet it boasts one member of genius in brash, bush-bearded old Augustus John. Last week the academy opened a dazzling retrospective of John's lifework, including some 230 portraits. The display amply documented the fact that John, at 76, still upholds a vigorous and perceptive tradition of portraiture...
...years pass, David, too, begins to shrink in stature. His Poona mission station grows so famed that it loses its Christian simplicity, and becomes to David what railroads became to his father. David dreads Indian independence. If the British raj is booted out, who will protect his lifework from destruction? It is now his turn to be horrified when his devout son Ted walks out on his father's seminary and goes to live among Indians in a village of mud huts...