Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PARODY is at one irreverent and nostalgic; it cannot admit bitterness for it is essentially positive, calling attention to traduced ideals. When Mahler states a theme in the minor immediately after the major, or transforms a funeral march or song of anxiety into a waltz or scherzo, he is not saying, I believe, that life is little more than the distortion of the beautiful and pristine, but rather that irony is the tissue of man's life. His starkly juxtaposed Use of diatonicism and chromaticism prefigured the expressionists, especially Berg, who sought to express musically the complex of radically differentiated...
...such an auto remains as elusive as unpolluted air. Those venerable vehicles of the early 1900s, the Baker and Detroit Electrics of pre-World War I days required many hours of battery recharging for every hour on the road. To this day, the "refueling" problem is one of the major obstacles holding up production of a commercially competitive electric...
...including 43 supertankers, are on order or being built for Greek owners. The Greeks set up shop wherever they can do business, in London, Manhattan, Lausanne or Beirut. They fly the most convenient flag -Liberian, Panamanian, Cypriot-but they remain Greek wherever they go. Their enterprise has been a major force in lifting the postwar economies of shipbuilding nations. In British shipyards alone, the Greeks now account for 25% of all orders...
...businesses - and that 3% accounts for less than 1% of U.S. business receipts. In greater Harlem, which has a population of half a million, there are fewer than 25 black-owned businesses that have more than 25 employees. Few of the important stores on 125th Street, the major artery of Harlem, are black-owned. True, more and more Negro entrepreneurs are rising, but too few have received any real help from the Nixon Administration, whose programs for black capitalism are mired in confusion, contradiction and delay. The Government has 117 programs for aid to "minority" businesses, but no central clearinghouse...
...first of the four concerts will start at 8:30 p.m.; next Tuesday. It features Folksinger Joan Baez. Tickets for the concert are available for $2 at the Stadium, major Boston ticket agencies, and at the Afro-American artists center in Roxbury...