Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Believer. An intense nationalist who had a Pan-Slavic fascination with Russia-one reason why his work is exceptionally popular in the Soviet Union -Janáček was a bitter atheist. "A church is concentrated death," he once said. "Tombs under the floor, bones on the altar, pictures that are nothing but torture and dying. Death and nothing but death. I don't want to have anything to do with it." Atheist or not, Janáček had a profoundly spiritual appreciation of the value of life. One of his most powerful compositions is the Slavonic Mass...
...true descendants. His method of composing was slapdash and, to would-be performers, sometimes unintelligible. Says Mackerras: "He never really knew his craft. He had an absolutely lackadaisical approach to the details, but a strict and passionate approach to what the music was trying to convey." Susskind suggests a reason for the carelessness: "It's as though Janáček figured his stuff wasn't going to be played anyway, so he might just as well write it the way he wanted to. But truth prevails. You can't keep a work of genius down forever...
...reason, of course, was the six-week-old strike against G.E. Whether the boycott will force the company to budge remains to be seen. Union boycotts generally have been ineffective. Indeed, at the scheduled start of the G.E. boycott on the day after Thanksgiving, no pickets showed up in major cities, though the unions promise that there will be many this week. Its determination is a sign of the growing bitterness in U.S. labor relations. Union men, whose pay raises in the past few years have barely kept pace with price boosts, increasingly feel that corporations and the Government...
...last week were that a settlement would be reached in time to prevent the walkout. If the strike occurs, however, President Nixon will probably have to break his pledge to keep hands off union disputes and request special legislation to settle the walkout. Whatever the outcome, the U.S. has reason to be uneasy. Unions will have to negotiate new contracts for some 4,000,000 workers next year-in what seems certain to be a climate of business slowdown, profit pinch and continued price boosts. That is about the worst imaginable climate for labor peace...
...labor and management negotiate an umbrella agreement, setting the rates for wage increases across the country. The terms are then written into detailed contracts for each industry. New contracts negotiated last June provided for an increase of 6.5% during the first year, plus another 3.5% the second year. One reason why employers can afford such increases is that the LOs enthusiastically cooperate in raising productivity, which in Sweden alone has gone up at an average of more than 7% a year during the 1960s...