Word: supplanting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unpublished works, is planned for release at a later date.) The generally excellent performances, recorded over a period of 41/2 years under Pierre Boulez's direction, feature the London Symphony Orchestra and such guest artists as Violinist Isaac Stern, Pianist Charles Rosen and the late Gregor Piatigorsky. They supplant in every way the pioneering complete Webern recorded by Robert Craft in the 1950s, also on Columbia. The postman may never whistle Webern's melodies, as Webern predicted. Many listeners may never get past what sounds cryptic and arid to them in his work. But these new discs show...
...what a history: primordial creation, the slow appearance of grassy Edens, the rise and fall of Atlantis and the centaurs, the fatal presumptuousness of Akhnaton and Queen Nefertiti, God Biology's new orders for the progress of mankind: THERE SHALL BE NO ACCIDENT, THE SCRIBE SHALL/ SUPPLANT RELIGION, & THE ENTIRE APPARATUS/ DEVELOP THE WAY TO PARADISE. The dark powers are given the responsibility of setting up a research laboratory to clone worthy souls. Mirabell, the name Merrill gives his chief informant, explains: A MERE 2 MILLION CLONED SOULS LISTEN TO EACH OTHER WHILE/ OUTSIDE THEY HOWL & PRANCE SO RECENTLY...
Teng disagreed, insisting that Soviet policies are essentially aggressive. He did not actually oppose the prospective SALT treaty, but he repeated to Carter his view stated to TIME that the U.S. should not expect much from SALT. According to a White House aide, Teng told Carter that "SALT cannot supplant the need for decisive action in other ways." He did not spell out what other ways he had in mind. On Capitol Hill, Teng's warning about SALT may well have caused a couple of Senators to change their votes, lessening the Administration's chances of getting...
...public system has overbuilt and overborrowed as well. If the private schools suffer most as the fiscal crisis deepens, that will be a consequence no one intended. The nation's large-and often excellent-public system was designed, after all, to supplement the private colleges, not to supplant them...
...push through a Soviet-backed proposal endorsing greater government control of the international flow of news (a U.S. lobbying effort stalled the motion). The bloc did succeed, however, in gaining UNESCO backing for a new Third World press pool that would supplement-and, some press libertarians fear, eventually supplant-the Western wire services in those countries. Says H.L. Stevenson, editor and vice president of U.P.I.: "If this pool decides it wants to give out handouts at the airport, that's it-we don't get into the countries...