Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earth, of opening vast new frontiers." The impending flight inspired Robert Gilruth, director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, to deliver a rhapsodic Christmas message to the centers 4,500 employees: "Perhaps the ancient mariners had the same feeling of anticipation as they set sail through the Straits of Gibraltar past the limits of the known world...
...Edgar Hoover accepted Nixon's invitation to remain as FBI chief. Nixon will be Hoover's eighth President (Calvin Coolidge was the first) and almost certainly his last. "The Director" is already four years past the normal mandatory retirement age (he will be 74 on New Year's Day), and it is understood that he will step down at age 75 with 45 years of service as the bureau's chief. Why the extension? Explained a Nixon aide: "You don't begin a law and order campaign by firing J. Edgar Hoover...
Since 1930, South America has been shaken by 39 military coups, affecting all but one (Uruguay) of the continent's ten principal countries. But the new set of coups is significantly different. Though there were some exceptions, by and large the military men in the past were eager to return to their barracks. After, of course, they had replaced the civilian regime that they had ousted with one more to their taste. Increasingly, the more recent military leaders do not share that retiring attitude. Confident and cocky activists, they intend to hold on to the power they seize...
What attracts the young to Bach is what attracts them to almost any other music: the beat. Artists of the past sometimes judged Bach to be nothing more than jigging monotony-"a sublime sewing machine," Colette called him-but the young know better. "There is a bridge between Bach's ideas of rhythm and those of the mid-20th century," says Pianist Glenn Gould, "and it has been created by popular music and jazz." The Swingle Singers, an eight-member Paris-based group led by American Ward Swingle, popularized Bach scores by performing them to the accompaniment...
...gifts. Musicologists have brought his works into clearer focus by editing his scores and clarifying their historic and esthetic background. Today's performers, heirs to the Baroque revival of recent decades, have a better sense of 18th century style, and instinctively reject the romantic excesses of the past. The advent of the LP has created a vast new audience for Bach, as it has for other composers; but Bach is a special beneficiary because his many intimate, complex compositions generally sound better in the home than in a large concert hall. In 1949, there were 15 Bach albums...