Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peter Yarrow's intelligently romantic debut solo album, and Colors of the Day (Electra), Judy Collins's greatest hits, which would be worth the price for her versions of "My Father" and "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" alone. Below the Salt (Chrysalis) was a major breakthrough for Steeleye Span one of the few British folk groups to successfully infuse new excitement into traditional madrigals with stirring musical arrangements and tightly knit choral work. Their lead singer. Maddy Prior, has a supremely clear and expressive voice...
Behavior is not a liquid that sets like Jell-O into the mold of a building. Yet all building implies some ordering of life. Fine spaces do not "happen"; they are designed, either by consensus over a span of years (like the town plan of San Gimignano in Tuscany) or else by the authoritative work of one man. There is no consensus of the first kind in America: witness the slurping tide of chaotic architectural mutants that passes for an urban experience in any U.S. city. So we are left with the individual architect as form giver: the responsibilities remain...
...fact is that doctors are graduated from medical school with a built-in dilemma. Their Hippocratic oath requires them not only to preserve life but also to relieve suffering. With the span of life being lengthened and with medical wizardry increasing its skills, there will be more and more cases in which one Hippocratic obligation is in direct conflict with the other. Whatever value may be put on George Bernard Shaw's opinion of doctors, he had sound advice for patients: "Do not outlive yourself...
...impetus, vigor and enthusiasm of his youth. He has also become somewhat skeptical of the ardent loves and rock-sure beliefs that are the trusted absolutes of the young. Yet he is not old enough in years for the long view, the contemplative wisdom which encompasses the entire life span of existence...
Some of this year's boost is coming from the calendar: the post-Thanksgiving scramble began two days earlier in 1972 than last year and will span an additional weekend. But most of it seems to be the result of old-fashioned consumer confidence, based on the booming economy, the bullish stock market and, most important, a greater degree of job security than in the past few years...