Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flag or concentrate on Americana, though Leonard Bernstein is setting to music poems by eight favorite writers, including Whitman and Poe. Dominick Argento and Vivian Fine are writing chamber operas respectively on Chekhov's monologue On the Harmfulness of Tobacco and Famous Women (Gertrude Stein, Isadora Duncan, Virginia Woolf). For a touch of Shakespeare, Alan Hovhaness and John Harbison are at work on operas based on Pericles and The Winter's Tale, though Harbison picked his play four years ago. Out in Seattle, the Eastern-inspired Hovhaness is also writing An Ode to the Cascade Mountains...
...Federal Aviation Administration has been lax in pursuing passenger safety, whether Teamster President Frank Fitzsimmons arranged with the White House to have his predecessor James Hoffa barred from further union activity, why fire-safety standards in the U.S. are not higher, why major coal companies in West Virginia have not paid millions of dollars in government fines for safety violations...
...Virginia Oates Cates Paducah...
Profile: When Chrissie Evert flew into Boston last week for the Virginia-Slims-sponsored U.S.Women's Indoor Championships--with her mother, a half dozen tennis dresses and many flavors of make-up--she was expected to win the tourney. And the way she played during the first few days of the event, it looked as if she would...
...breaking away from the usual trend of the questions. I pointed out to Evert that if she won the Virginia Slims tournament, she would win more money win more money in a week ($15,000) than most 20-year-olds have earned in their lives. In fact, she had earned over $300,000 last year between winning and endorsements and very few 19-year-olds in the world earn that much money. The question I was leading up to was how did this affect her life? Did she buy something that she had always wanted, did she invest...