Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharpest perils in America's future will arise out of the modern offsprings of progress, claims Macrae. The most frightening possibility is the rapid spread of atomic weapons into the hands of global terrorists. The major industrial countries must meet this predicament by improving the living standards of the poorer nations, thereby increasing the commitment of all human beings to maintaining an unwarlike status...
...program is now in progress, with its first artist in residence, Les McCann, conducting workshops while staying at Lowell House...
...cannot be reduced much further. He is also concerned that because lenders are sweating out the fate of their New York City bonds and shaky real estate loans, obtaining a new loan commitment could be difficult. Says Seawell: "It's ironic, since we're finally showing some progress. But getting a new line of credit won't be easy because the climate for borrowing now isn't the best." Nonetheless, Seawell and most airline observers believe that Pan Am will indeed get a new line of credit...
Stash says that skating took hold of him "like a bug." Starting in 1969, he worked with the local pro at the rink. As one would expect, the going was frustrating and the progress was slow. "I probably should have quit, but I really didn't know any better," he says...
Schoenberg's great expressionist compositions like the sextet Verklarte Nacht, which seems to breathe in that decaying, sickeningly rich atmosphere, and Pierrot Lunaire, which for many is the ultimate expression of diseased, depraved emotions. Schoenberg drew creative sustenance from the advancing disorder of musical forms and he hastened its progress, until by 1916, he felt that he could proceed no farther...