Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...world renowned pianist-author, who in this first of a series of six lectures discussed the "romantic" approach to music that developed during the 1830s, said 19th-century composers had a "fuller conception" of the sounds they wrote than earlier composers...
Selwyn R. Cudjoe, an assistant professor in the Afro-American Studies Department, is the author of Resistance and Caribbean Literature...
With no independent press, it is impossible for a truly dissident author to publish works that go beyond the vague limits set by party authorities. Yet Tsao Yu is optimistic, and understandably so. He remembers that even during the '50s, plays had to have "workers, peasants or soldiers in them." In the standard stereotyped drama, he recalls, "you'd have a hero who becomes a model worker, then gets wounded, but comes back to work before his wounds are healed. Seeing 100 plays was the same as seeing one play. But now things are changing, and we feel...
...surviving. Several of the Bronx Zoo's condors now dive and wheel over the mountains of Peru. One of the most prestigious breeding programs has been established on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, where a British group under the honorary directorship of Biologist-Author Gerald Durrell has been breeding everything from rare primates (lemurs and marmosets) to endangered birds (the brown-eared pheasant and thick-billed parrot) and reptiles (the red-footed tortoise and Jamaican...
...author does not hide his admiration for the man whose record of 36 years on the high court may stand forever. And there is indeed much to admire. As a child in Yakima, Wash., Douglas had to conquer polio and poverty. He gave up everything dear to him to jump into the Establishment's big East Coast pond, and by age 39 was leading the successful campaign to reform the New York Stock Exchange. He spent half of his life on the Supreme Court championing un popular causes and had so much surplus energy that he became a prolific...