Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Significant premieres by two of today's leading composers might help to change that attitude, however. In Washington two weeks ago, Mstislav Rostropovich led the National Symphony Orchestra in the eight completed movements of Krzysztof Penderecki's Polish Requiem, a work in progress for vocal quartet and chorus that promises to be a major statement, both musically and politically, when it is finished some time next year. And last week in Paris, Seiji Ozawa presided over the world premiere of Olivier Messiaen's first opera, Saint François d'Assise, which is clearly intended...
...EFFECTIVE political life was over. But he didn't stop trying. He ran for governor of Pennsylvania in 1958 and mayor of Philadelphia in 1959. In 1960 he was a vocal opponent of Nixon and tried to oppose his nomination at the convention. Since his ousting from the Eisenhower administration he has practiced law, but he still remains convinced that he is the man to run the country. He ran against Nixon in 1968. Reagan in 1976 and 1980 and on September 9 of this year became the first Republican to announce his presidential candidacy...
...through 1987 in order to decrease the deficit. Although the long range plan has been met with some support on Capitol Hill, it is nevertheless losing backers within the Administration itself, who steadfastly oppose any tax hikes. Feldstein's mistake seems to be that he has been vocal in his support of the plan, something which the administration does not savor. Disagreement has centered, then, not on policy but on politics; the Chairman's propensity to harp publicly on the importance of decreasing the deficit has caused disaffection in Washington among officials who him that the Economics department professor...
...Indira Gandhi welcomed the participants, a majority of them began pushing for a resolution condemning the Oct. 25 U.S. invasion of Grenada. Leaders from five of the Eastern Caribbean states that had joined the U.S. forces refused to go along. In the course of an unusually acrimonious discussion, a vocal contingent from the African states of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mauritius claimed that the U.S. action might encourage the South Africans to invade neighboring countries on the pretext of protecting its nationals abroad. In response, Dominica's Prime Minister Eugenia Charles, who had stood at President Reagan's side...
...even old ones in new ways. Instead, his speech must be seen in a political context--perhaps a testing of the waters alter Grenada and before the Presidential season (or even a possible invasion of Nicaragua). In that case, political opposition would have done well to be as vocal and militant as possible...