Word: pioneerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great modern scandals in the performing arts. The turning point had come two years earlier, when both the Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra decided to leave and play their New York concerts in Carnegie. "You can imagine how I felt about that," said Fisher, one of the pioneer manufacturers of sound equipment. The entire inside of the Fisher Hall was gutted. Harris put in 2,742 new seats, with fabric (velvet) and wood (oak) carefully designed to be minimally sound absorbent. All the old seats had been removed; some were given to a fledgling theater group only a few blocks...
...encouraged by his friends, including Senator Edward Kennedy, who has been supporting an uphill fight to elect him Senate Democratic leader, Humphrey placed himself in the hands of Memorial's Whitmore. Leading the team of five doctors, Urologist Whitmore performed an extremely difficult operation that he had helped pioneer in the early 1950s with his old mentor, Dr. Victor Marshall of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center...
Another retrospective--faded gravures by a photographic pioneer (dead and buried). Ghosts of forgotten cities and men ("New York in 1910," "John Galsworthy") images of unforgettable places ("Winter Shadows...
...Research at Columbia University and past president of the American Sociological Association; of cancer; in Manhattan. Lazarsfeld got his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Vienna, and when he came to the U.S. in 1933, devoted himself to applying that discipline to sociology, psychology and market research. A pioneer in researching the effects of mass communication, he systematically studied, along with Frank Stanton, later president of CBS, the radio-listening habits of Americans in the '30s and '40s. Modern voter-projection methods grew out of his original studies of election behavior. For 29 years a professor...
...American believer in simple faiths, decent instincts and great men. A cosmopolite from Velva (pop. 1,241), N. Dak., he was born into a bleak prairie universe whose "skyline offered nothing to soothe the senses." The grandson of a Norwegian immigrant, he inherited the official optimism of a pioneer, but also the matchless pessimism of an old-fashioned Lutheran. His father had to move the family to Minneapolis when the bank he worked for went broke during the droughts of the late 1920s...