Word: strives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many people are as relaxed as Author Jean Kerr, who remarks: "I didn't bother to be discreet. I thought, if I have to be careful I just won't tell anything. So I told everything." Each interviewer has his own questioning techniques, but what they all strive for is a rapport that will allow the subject to relax enough to show his real character. "It's wonderful if people will talk freely, just bubble on," says Theater Critic Theodore Kalem. "Lauren Bacall happens to be the bar-buddy sort of girl who is easy to talk...
...Ford Foundation gave Pianist Jacob Lateiner a $5,000 grant to commission a new work. "Being very lazy by nature," he explains, "I did not want to spend time learning a new piece that I could only play a few times because of its novelty. I wanted to strive for something, no matter how difficult it might be, that would be valuable decades from now." So Lateiner asked Elliott Carter, one of modern music's most original and complex composers, to write a piano concerto...
...concept. Assorted Anglican bishops pull him back from "out there" in space and redefine God as ground of being. Some Protestant "Christian atheists" stand ready to write his obituary. Catholics and Protestants alike admit that the traditional proofs for God's existence can be satisfactorily disproved, and earnestly strive for new ways to define and explain his presence...
...bear scant resemblance to the later interpretations inflated by choruses of thousands. Today's revived interest in baroque music has resulted in two new albums that aim at authenticity, each using a chorus of 40 or fewer and an orchestra of similar size. The soloists in both albums strive -with mixed success -to ornament their melodies in 18th century style. Robert Shaw (RCA Victor), conducting his own chorale and orchestra, shows how dramatic the scaled-down work can be; his version, with its furiously paced hallelujahs, is hard-hitting theater. The second new recording, by the London Symphony Orchestra...
...moderate who seeks to direct the party into more vote-catching paths by de-emphasizing such Marxian credos as class war and nationalization. Instead, Eda promised to head the party toward his "Eda vision," an eclectic selection of party goals that would have Japan under the Socialists strive to emulate the Soviet Union's social security system, Britain's parliamentary democracy, and the U.S.'s standard of living...