Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire surface of the painting with a sense of awe, a ritualistic presence; and in groping toward this he produced some of the least satisfactory paintings of his career?vague, disconnected blots and blurs, pretty as begonias, but otherwise unremarkable. But gradually the patches coalesced, the structure firmed. His breakthrough came in 1949, with a painting named Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red, which created the formula he would explore (with variations) for the last 20 years of his life: tiers of color in bands and oblongs, softly glowing, stacked up on the canvas. Within this format, Rothko...
...possible for isolated women to make it on their own," says Linda B. Poor, a second-year student and president of the HBS Women's Student Association (WSA). "But it's a real breakthrough when each of the women in a group can say, 'I need these women and they need me. And I'm confident enough of my own professional ability to take the time to help them...
Citizen/Labor Energy Coalition: D.C.-based new coalition to encourage job creation through safe energy development, combines left unions such as the Machinists with public interest and community organizations--a breakthrough in this kind of cooperation...
TUESDAY. Carter seeks breakthrough on Sinai problem, pores over maps with Weizman. President sees possibility of working out two agreements, one on Israeli-Egyptian peace, one on framework for overall peace. Carter retreats to private study, scrawls details of separate Sinai agreement on yellow pad, putting in dates for Israeli withdrawals, size of security positions, hard numbers. He puts proposals in his pocket, then meets with Sadat. They go over Egyptian response to U.S. overall peace principles. Carter pulls Sinai proposals from pocket. Sadat surprisingly receptive, merely modifies some security zone dimensions, other figures...
...only one of eleven children to live to maturity. Ragtime was regarded as indecent music; his mother never permitted him to play it in the house. Initially, Eubie toured the vaudeville circuit with Singer Noble Sissle. In 1921, with Sissle as lyricist, the pair scored a national breakthrough with Shuffle Along, the first Broadway musical ever to be produced, directed, composed and performed solely by blacks...