Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before Wedgwood, those Englishmen who could not eat off gold plates ate off pewter and wooden trenchers. Josiah changed all that. At age nine, he had started "throwing," or molding clay, at his brother's pottery, opened his own kiln 20 years later, and plunged into the relentless experimentation that marked him as one of the most liberal and scientific minds of the Age of Enlightenment. This is the 200th anniversary of the year when his cream-colored earthenware so impressed Queen Charlotte I that she made Wedgwood her court potter and ordered that pearly pottery be called Queen...
...rock was once the conditioned reflex of the older generation ("Would you want your daughter to marry a Rolling Stone?"), a surprisingly large segment of 20-to-40-year-olds are now facing up to the music and, what is more, liking it. Mostly, the appeal is its relentless beat. It is perhaps the most kinetic sound since the tom-tom or the jungle drum. It may seem monotonous to the musicologist, too loud to the sensitive, but it is utterly compelling to the feet...
Professionally, he is both a professor at the Sorbonne and a columnist for Le Figaro; Intellectually, he has pursued a triple career as a philosopher, a social scientist, and a citizen... Aron's work is a relentless Interrogation of contemporary society in all its forms: what are its main features, how does it differ from its own past, where is it going, or rather what kind of choices are open? His sociology is essentially historical; he is not interested in the abstract system-building of "grand theory" divorced from history, and since he considers concepts useful only as long...
...Deutsche Grammophon; 2 LPs). "Blessed are they that mourn," softly sings the chorus, and soon the sad saraband begins ("For all flesh is as grass"). At length the black solemnity is relieved by the soaring soprano voice of Gundula Janowitz singing "I will see you again." A powerful, rhythmically relentless performance by Herbert von Karajan, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Singverein...
...compulsive masturbator. He wrote love letters in baby talk, named his women like horses (Babu Mio, My Golden Girl), and guzzled bromide by the bottle. He was a fiercely vocal champion of artistic integrity who forced publishers to print the works of half-baked eccentrics. He was a noisily relentless foe of vested interests and social injustice who admired Machiavelli and kept a wad of money in the stock market. He was a mystic. He was also a powerful and, for his time, persuasive novelist...