Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Backed by a quintet that includes his brothers, he begins to play. The style, limned in his characteristic parallel octaves, is mellower, more melodic than before; but every note still throbs with bluesy feeling. The purists start snapping their fingers in spite of themselves, and they join the pop, rock, and rhythm-and-blues fans in applauding...
...development built on air rights atop Penn Station. Chicago's four-year-old circular Marina City apartment complex, already a city landmark, is built above the tracks of the Chicago and North Western Railway. In Newton, Mass., work began this month on a $40 million development-consisting, to start with, of a motel, a nine-story office building and a 650-car garage-that will straddle the bustling Massachusetts Turnpike...
...Kennedy Round agreements hold, the new head of GATT and his associates will be able to start work on another major effort to liberalize world trade. They plan to tackle the area of nontariff obstacles to commerce from border taxes to sanitary regulations. Also high on GATT's agenda are measures to encourage trade between developed and underdeveloped nations by means of special concessions. Long foresees a period ahead in which the problems of poorer countries will be "of paramount importance," and his main job will be to help stop the widening prosperity...
...hope of the American theater has sometimes been placed in off-Broadway: in terms of sustained achievement this amounts to wistful thinking. Of the several playwrights who got their start off-Broadway, only Edward Albee has remotely fulfilled his promise. But since Virginia Woolf, his work has persistently dwindled in strength or substance. For one thing, Albee has developed a galloping case of adaptationitis, culling plots, characters and even dialogue from other writers' novels and plays. More surprisingly, he has lost the forked tongue that contributed so much to the venomous delight of Virginia Woolf. Albee unquestionably...
Lynn, whose field is American literature, is leaving after 14 years here to teach at the new, predominantly Negro Federal City College in Washington D.C. In explaining his reasons for leaving, he said that it is time to stop talking and start acting...