Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loyalist who had also campaigned against the EEC but less noisily than Benn. Education Minister Reginald Prentice, a leading pro-Marketeer, was switched to the Ministry of Overseas Development as a gesture of evenhandedness. Although the Overseas Ministry is technically sub-Cabinet, Prentice was allowed to keep his Cabinet rank when Home Secretary Roy Jenkins threatened to resign over his fellow moderate's demotion. The Prentice move displaced Leftist Judith Hart, who was offered the Ministry of Transport but turned it down in pique. "I fear we are witnessing the first dangerous stages of what could prove...
...price increases have just about eliminated the possibility of an amicable settlement of union wage claims. The government first indicated that it would accept a final wage increase no higher than 38%, but this was immediately rejected by union leaders under pressure from an angry rank and file. A proposed ceiling of 45% imposed by decree was likewise angrily rejected. At week's end the wage talks were deadlocked, and workers seemed on the verge of industrial turmoil. There was a two-day strike at heavy-industry plants in Córdoba; when demonstrations were banned by the authorities...
...piano; RCA; 2 LPs; $16.98). Corraling a collection of virtuosos to record chamber music is not always a good idea. Having spent years alone in the spotlight, too many of them lack the knack of bobbing and weaving in rhythm with other minds and hearts. Szeryng, Fournier and Rubinstein rank high among the successful exceptions to this individualistic rule. In these trios, each player retains his own particular musical fist yet manages to fit it into his neighbor's glove. In perfect harmony, they play as if they were giving birth to true Schubertian miracles-which indeed they...
John Cranko, founder of the Stuttgart Ballet in 1961, molded it into a company of world rank with his ballets on great classical themes: Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, The Taming of the Shrew. Cranko's traditional style stressed drama and athleticism. Ballet audiences were therefore stunned when, after Cranko's sudden death in 1973, American Choreographer Glen Tetley was appointed his successor. An iconoclast of the dance, Tetley, 49, raises conservative eyebrows high with his infusion of modern dance idioms into ballet. Again, unlike Cranko, he has always been known for relatively small dance pieces that concentrate...
Powers will have the same area of responsibility as Mullins--primarily dealing with labor unions that have contracts with Harvard--but his title indicates a higher rank and pay scale than Mullins...