Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning his new job. His popularity soared to a high of 83* in the rally-roundthe-flag spirit that immediately followed the Bay of Pigs fiasco that April, sagged to 71 by July, climbed again in the atmosphere of crisis over Berlin to a second peak of 79 last March. But since Kennedy's celebrated tangle with Big Steel and the Blue Monday that followed, his popularity has slipped. The latest Gallup poll found him back where he started: 69% of those questioned thought he was doing a good...
...always had a common culture. The exhibitions have ranged from rococo to Romanesque to the romantic, and each year a different city has played host. In a sense, the Vienna show -"European Art Around 1400"-is the most complex, for the period forms a cultural valley between the spiritual peak of the Gothic cathedral and the humanism of the later Renaissance. Yet the council has achieved a notable success: for all its diverse elements, the art of Europe around 1400 had an undeniable unity...
Although Mrs. Pardue's all-Bach program was a difficult one, she was in peak form and her playing was almost note-perfect. For once I did not have to worry whether the performer could just get through all the notes; I could assume this, and proceed to concentrate on other matters...
Jazzed Up Dissonance. Stan Kenton's crew, which last week was midway through a nine-month tour, is riding the crest of a post-rock 'n' roll revival of interest in bands. The revival has not yet risen to the peak of the '30s when the bands roamed the countryside in gaudy caravans, carrying a whiff of the wide world with them. But, although there are fewer bands today, the top ones are making bigger money and getting more bookings. If they wanted to, such men as Ray Anthony, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman...
Such was the fate in the 18th century of Frederick the Great, who led Prussia to its peak as a great European power but whose successors could not stop Napoleon; such also was the fate in the 19th century of Bismarck, whose political genius created modern Germany and helped give Europe more than 40 years of peace-both destroyed, after his death, by World War 1. Adenauer is painfully aware of these parallels in German history, and is determined to delay his departure as long as possible, despite his domestic critics...