Word: solness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe, and at 13 became the youngest student in the history of Rome's Academy of Santa Cecilia to win a master's degree. Hearing of the prodigy. Artur Rubinstein several times invited Barenboim to his home to play. Present on one occasion was U.S. Impresario Sol Hurok. who signed him up at 14 for his first U.S. tour. (This is his fourth...
...Peace seemed likely to break out between the Chrysler Corp. and Proxy Battler Sol A. Dann, 58, the feisty Detroit lawyer who, as a stockholder (5,100 shares), has been harrying management for three years. In return for indefinite postponement of Chrysler's $30 million libel suit against him, Dann proposes to abandon his own suits against a clutch of former Chrysler executives and suppliers for alleged collusion to overcharge the company on parts...
Brooker may prove just what Ward needs. At least, he was trained in the right place: Sears, Roebuck & Co., where he rose to a vice-presidency for manufacturing before leaving in 1958 to head the Sears-affiliated Whirlpool Corp. But his appointment helped kill the enthusiasm of Sol Cantor, president of New York's discount-minded Interstate Department Stores, for a previously planned merger with Ward. Cantor and other Interstate brass were miffed when Ward's Chairman John Barr did not check the selection of Brooker with them...
Among the Savages. Beltran accepted the job with a wry comment: "Like missionaries who go among the savages, we must be prepared to be eaten." He took over at a time when the currency presses were speeding up, the sol was slipping down, and foreign debts were climbing. He clamped on an austerity that stabilized the economy so impressively that the U.S. has pumped $79 million worth of loans into Peru. Beltran anticipated the Alliance for Progress by channeling funds into "social" projects-mainly housing. He tightened tax collections (although the maximum tax is still a painlessly low 30%), tried...
...processional based on Heinrich Isaac's La Mi La Sol exhibited the lavish potentialities of cornetto, sackbut and shawm. The intricate syncopation of this piece is akin to the spirit of many of Gabrielli's horn canzone...