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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...triumph of the production was that it laid out the full span of Berg's intricate, marvelous score, seamlessly completed by Viennese Composer Friedrich Cerha. It was given an exhilarating performance by Boulez, with notably precise, transparent playing by the Paris Opera orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lulu Is the Toast of Paris | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...days, it is true, the President's sleek black ZIL limousine roared down the center lane of Kutuzovsky Prospekt to the Kremlin every morning at 8 o'clock. Now it usually arrives after 10. Brezhnev takes more naps than he once did, and more vacations. His attention span is shorter. Instead of the impromptu policy discussions he used to thrive on, he greets important political visitors with remarks and toasts read from papers prepared for him. Much of his old zest has vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Interview with Brezhnev | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Three years ago Wagner was a Division Three college with an innocuous basketball program. Then the decision was made to move up to Division One. Carlesimo was hired and he brought players named Ciampaglia, Aponte, and DiDonna to the Grymes Hill gymnasium framed by the span of the Verrezano Bridge...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Wagner Downs Cagers, 82-73 | 12/15/1978 | See Source »

Bobby Allen kept the hoopsters in the game through the second half, in which he scored 12 of his 14 points. In a three minute span the snub-nosed junior scored on a pair of jumpers, a tip-in, and converted a three-point play to keep the Crimson tied at 64-64 with 9:35 left...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Wagner Downs Cagers, 82-73 | 12/15/1978 | See Source »

Those two factors caused some problems for Harvard in the spring and summer of 1934, a six-month span when "Hanfy" became as much a red flag on campus as "Engelhard" is today. The furor didn't end until September 24 1934, when the President and Fellows of Harvard University voted not to accept $1,000 from Hanfstaengl, a sum that he had hoped would be used to fund a travelling scholarship to bear his name...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Nazi Who Loved Harvard... | 12/12/1978 | See Source »

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