Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there a busier contemporary composer than Philip Glass? The prolific minimalist seems to be everywhere these days, churning out operas, film scores and instrumental music with the tireless industry of an 18th century Kapellmeister. Unlike Haydn, though, Glass has no Prince Esterhazy to keep him in livery, only his appetite for work. In May his The Fall of the House of Usher, based on Poe's grisly tale, opened in Cambridge, Mass. Seven weeks later, the Houston Grand Opera premiered his operatic setting of Doris Lessing's novel The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. Now, and most spectacularly...
...strategists have begun to envision that scenario when talk turns -- as it increasingly does nowadays -- to Japan's growing influence. The very prospect of such pressure, however remote, is part of a subtle change in the way Americans view the Japanese. No longer is Japan seen simply as a tireless competitor and an endless source of high-quality goods. Japan's successes have been so spectacular that they seem ready to burst beyond economic bounds...
...Friday in Frankfurt, site of England's consolation game with the Soviet Union, the tireless roughnecks caroused in the city's red-light district, despite 1,400 patrolling policemen. It was an altogether repugnant show. As a bleary-eyed fan wearing a Union Jack T shirt said, "We'll never be in Europe again. Not even our own government will recommend...
Until now, the stubby and squat Boeing 737 has been an anonymous little workhorse, scarcely recognized by airline passengers even though most of them have flown on one. Trusted by the airlines for its seemingly tireless reliability and efficiency on short hops, the "guppie" has become the best- selling jetliner in history. The 737 fleet, which now exceeds 1,500 jets worldwide, has carried more than 1.7 billion passengers and flown more than 10 billion miles. But last week the venerable plane was suddenly the most infamous and scrutinized of jetliners, as the Federal Aviation Administration ordered U.S. airlines...
None of the old Senators ever dreamed of such an event, says Albert Gore Sr., the only one of the three still alive. At 80 he is a cheery and tireless campaigner for his son. "I've been through 35 states, and I have 13 to go," he said over the phone from New Orleans last week. Then he reminisced...