Word: major
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...maturing. With each advance in subsistence technology, survival grew more secure, hastening population growth; and as population grew, the advances came more quickly. By the Mesolithic Age, around 10,000 B.C., with the neuronal population up to around 4 million, the rate of advance had moved from one major innovation per 20,000 years to a sizzling one per 200--including such gifts to posterity as combs and beer...
...foldout chart elsewhere in these pages. Prepared with much disputatious--not to say rebellious--muttering by this magazine's critics, it lists the century's "best" work in every facet of the arts. Its most interesting aspect is the intensely clustered dates of the works representing the major expressive forms...
...period of just 11 years--1911 to 1922--contains the greatest painting, play, novel and poem of this century and encompasses as well major annunciatory works by the authors of what we deem our greatest musical composition and sculpture, and not a few runners-up in several categories. To put it simply: there was in these few years an outburst of creative (and subversive) daring that may well be unsurpassed in human history...
...Igor Stravinsky (1930) This reaffirmation of the glory of God begins in astringent lamentation and ends in radiant certitude. RUNNERS-UP String Quartet in F Major by Maurice Ravel; Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland...
...Kelsos are pleading not guilty to charges of abandonment, a misdemeanor. But affluence turned their predicament into loud headlines. Richard, 62, is president and ceo of the PQ Corp., a major specialty-chemical company, and serves on a prestigious Philadelphia business council; Dawn, 45, is an activist for disabled-children?s causes and for three years has been a member of the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council, an advisory group to the state welfare department. News stories noted that the couple drove away from the police station, where they were charged, in separate BMWs...