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...some 30 tax officials to resign during the 1951 congressional probe that uncovered illegal payoffs in many IRS offices, was convicted in 1952 of taking money from two firms with cases before the Government, serving 18 months of a two-year term for misconduct in office; of a heart ailment; in Webster Groves...
Illiteracy is a social ill that grates on a nation's conscience, raises painful visions of a stubborn ailment curable only by radical political surgery. Yet Mexico is showing the rest of the world that the condition can be successfully attacked with a combination of persistence, pesos and ingenuity. In 20 years, it has slashed its illiteracy nearly in half-from 52% to less than...
Shortly before leaving the Vienna Opera in 1907, Mahler learned that he had a serious heart ailment. He said his farewell to earthly joys and confronted death in the hauntingly bittersweet song cycle Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) and the coolly spiritual Ninth Symphony. Weakened by overwork, he caught a streptococcus infection while struggling feverishly with his Tenth Symphony ("The devil is dancing with me!" he scrawled in the margin), and died at 50 in 1911. His life was incomplete but, as he once expressed it, "I am a musician; that says everything...
...permission, an act that she found "disgustful." Trained as a writer and English translator, Svetlana was also aware that she could never publish her autobiography-a Life-With-Father memoir that the Kremlin would not allow to be printed. When Singh fell seriously ill last year with a respiratory ailment, he and Svetlana were not allowed to return to his Indian home village of Kalakankar...
...words of 8th century Chinese Poet Li T'ai-Po had special poignance for Gustav Mahler in 1907. Aware that he was dying of a heart ailment, the composer felt a heightened awareness of worldly joys and beauties, and a piercing melancholy over losing them. He took six verses by Li T'ai-Po and other Chinese poets as texts for tenor, contralto and orchestra, and wrote his farewell in Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), his most personal and by all odds his best work. Scored in a rich, late-romantic idiom...