Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This Rough Magic, Stewart...
...This Rough Magic, Stewart...
...pursuit of "Goulash Communism," Khrushchev tried to cope with it, and with all his economy's mounting problems, by replanning the planners. No fewer than six times in ten years, he scrambled the organization table, veering from decentralization back to recentralization in the vain hope of finding the magic mix for what he called "better utilization of the country's industrial potential." It eluded him each time-and his constant shufflings left the Russian economy at the mercy of the monster planning Hydra, with its multiple overlapping bureaus on the national, regional and local level, even more than...
...immediate success. Curiously, Tippett then retreated into a cocoon of meditative quietude for the next ten years to crystallize his musical vision-which, as he puts it, is to "know my shadow and my light." He emerged in 1955 with The Midsummer Marriage, a kind of 20th century Magic Flute, overloaded with symbolism but containing some of his most lyrically beautiful music. His next major work was the powerful opera King Priam, which marked a dramatic departure from anything he had done before. Spare, angular, dramatically taut, it has served as a jumping-off point for everything he is presently...
...supported National Gallery and the Crown had kicked in the rest. British Art Critic Douglas Cooper carped that it was "an inordinate amount of the taxpayers' money." He wrote: "I can only laugh at the gullibility of those who are so blinded by shame and the magic of a name that they cannot recognize a most undesirable failure...