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Word: succession (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fifth speaker in the summer Thursday Speakers Series, Blake defined "Third Stream Music" as "a beautiful strand of two different musical styles," and added that the road to success in the new stream comes with listening to sounds of music and not just following notes on paper...

Author: By Mel M. Marinkovic, | Title: Blake Advises Third Stream Composers | 8/4/1978 | See Source »

...success in this kind of music, and in composing in general, he added, "is to learn music at the very first from the ear, not from the note." Schools should teach music students to "stretch their ears," to be creative and to "internalize" sounds instead of just writing them down, he said. However, he concluded, "we are today turning out a tremendous number of improvisors who are robots...

Author: By Mel M. Marinkovic, | Title: Blake Advises Third Stream Composers | 8/4/1978 | See Source »

...collector, auditor, clerk and secretary he met, always placing the accent on his name. The reactions he received ranged from disinterested nods to an embrace and kiss from one secretary; that seemed to ensure him one vote at least, but the stop could not be considered a complete success. Several city councilors who were supposed to meet with Tsongas were not around...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: Fighting to Make a Name for Himself | 8/1/1978 | See Source »

Even after fertilization, doctors have no assurance that the egg will divide; again the culture medium must be carefully controlled. Some researchers think that the highest rate of success could be achieved if the content of the solution were continually altered as the cells go through stages of division. Finally, when the egg becomes a blastocyst or shortly before, it is ready for implanting. One way this can be done is by picking up the egg, which is still no bigger than the dot at the end of this sentence, with a tiny hollow tube, or pipette, then inserting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...hint of the impending birth of a British test-tube baby came last spring not from London's Fleet Street but from, Manhattan's South Street, in the New York Post-After getting a tip that Britain's Dr. Patrick Steptoe was on the verge of success with an in vitro fertilization technique, Post Reporter Sharon Churcher placed an overseas call to Steptoe. He let it slip that a test-tube baby might soon be born, and Churcher broke the news on April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Frenzy in the British Press | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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