Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magnificent voice, a control that has been carefully developed during her days with Peter Asher. Hasten Down the Wind hinted at that sound, and Simple Dreams polished it even further. Ronstadt's newest release, Living in the U.S.A., showcases her versatnity and maintains the melodic mixture that has proven so successful in the past. The album is not her strongest to date, but it does reflect the enormous talent Linda Ronstadt possesses...
...count your chickens before they're hatched, the old adage says, but Harvard has always been a bit iconoclastic when it comes to going against such time-proven advice. The renovation plans recently drawn up in University Hall testify to Harvard's knack for looking ahead...
...across the surface but with a strong subtle current running along the seabed, a roaring good story with a moral that doesn't have to hit you across the head. Halberstam, who won the 1953 Dana Reed Prize in his days as managing editor of The Crimson, has certainly proven that his days in medical school and as a Washington cardiologist haven't dulled his abilities at a typewriter. The question that must be floating around the minds of his classmates in why they had to wait a quarter of a century for his first novel...
...stories on the choice of a Pope and on the presidential prospects of Ted Kennedy [Aug. 21] provide an ironic contrast. For Pope, there is a bewildering array of choices of men of proven ability and unblemished record, so that it is hard to pick a front runner. But for President, there seem to be few options. Ted Kennedy appears to be far and away the front runner. Yet he has little or no executive or military experience. His best friends would not maintain that he is of outstanding intellect or character, and his blemished past is a source...
...which Department of Energy officials estimate to be nearly $3 billion since 1974, is the result of a variety of conservation ideas. While some companies have been experimenting with various alternative sources of energy, most of the immediate gains have come from simple conservation steps or the application of proven available technology. Some of the measures taken have been as sophisticated as the elaborate computer system that Burlington Industries, the big textile firm, has installed to regulate the use of electricity in 20 of its 99 plants. Others are as uncomplicated as the discovery by General Motors that it could...