Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major report was drawn up by a six-man commission appointed by Army Secretary Martin Hoffmann to investigate last spring's cheating scandal (TIME cover, June 7). Wrote Commission Chairman Frank Borman, the former astronaut, in a letter to Hoffmann accompanying the 91-page study: "We believe that education concerning the honor code has been inadequate and the administration of the honor code has been inconsistent and, at times, corrupt. The cadets did cheat, but were not solely at fault. Their culpability must be viewed against the unrestrained growth of the 'cool-on-honor' subculture...
...canceled a last-minute campaign trip to the restive northern region of Catalonia to supervise the search for Oriel's kidnapers. In a dramatic TV address minutes before the Friday "execution" deadline set by the terrorists. Suárez's Interior Minister Rodolfo Martin Villa said that the government could not accept "blackmail and coercion" and had tried every channel of "worthy and humanitarian" solution to the kidnaping. If Oriol is killed. Villa vowed, his kidnapers will be hunted down...
...town of Weatherford in Texas has a population of about 12,000 and boasts that two of its citizens have won national fame: Actress-Singer Mary Martin and Congressman James Claude Wright. For the next two years at least, Wright will probably get top billing over Mary Martin for a change...
Handel, Messiah: Soprano Elly Ameling, Contralto Anna Reynolds, Tenor Philip Langridge, Bass Gwynne Howell; Academy and Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner conducting (3 LPs, Argo). This is a masterly lesson in the art of making a familiar classic sound fresh and spontaneous. Marriner's authentically baroque phrasings, rhythms and instrumentations have much to do with that. So does his seemingly effortless ability simply to make music sing...
Ethnic pluralism for Crimson letter writer, Martin Kilson...