Word: vaughan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan officials sought to deflect criticism by pointing out that the exercise made several unrealistic assumptions, especially underestimating the U.S. strategic reserve. Besides, insisted William Vaughan, Assistant Secretary for Emergency Preparedness, past evidence shows that Government interference only makes things worse. Many experts believe the 1973 shortages were caused by federal price controls and allocation policies then in effect...
...player. Various accounts origin of nickname: ceaseless buzzing energy; onetime habit of wearing black-and-yellow striped sweaters. Discovered by Copeland playing a gig with "a couple of old jazzers" in a school classroom. Getting divorced (see Every Breath You Take); likes to talk matters intellectual. Favorite music: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony...
...popular music, who in the 1920s severed the piano from its ragtime connections and pioneered a distinctive new sound; of a heart attack; in Oakland, Calif. As leader of his own big band for two decades, he nurtured such future jazz stars as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan...
...Symphony achieved a high profile, thanks to the PBS television series Previn and the Pittsburgh. Similar in sound to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony is a dark-toned ensemble that is especially good in the romantic showpieces and in the music of English composers like Elgar and Vaughan Williams, a passion of the England-based Previn...
...conductor of the London Philharmonic until 1957; in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Working with precision and economy of gesture, Boult insisted on purely musical, never theatrical interpretations. Knighted in 1937, he premiered much modern music in Britain and was a particular champion of such contemporary English composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst. "It is our duty," he once said, "to do a little of everything modern that is worthwhile, and more than a little of everything English...