Word: groves
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Singer Toni Tennille joined the La Guardia Community College choir and throngs of shoppers in O Come All Ye Faithful and Jingle Bells when the 65-ft. Norway spruce was lighted in Rockefeller Center. Meanwhile, in California nearly 4,000 members of the Reform Church of America at Garden Grove's fancy new million-dollar Crystal Cathedral heard Roger Williams play Deck the Halls in a special service to be televised for Christmas...
Haunted by the memory of the 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire that killed 504 persons, Boston has one of the nation's most stringent fire codes. Every building over 70 ft. tall, for instance, must have a sprinkler in every room, closet and corridor. Just as important, owners of some existing buildings have voluntarily modernized their fire-safety systems. The venerable seven-story Copley Plaza was built in 1912, but its owners are spending $460,000 to install smoke alarms in every room after an arsonist's blaze in 1979 killed two people...
...entry on Elvis Presley concentrates on the singer's virtuosity ("His voice covered two and a third octaves from G to B with an upward extension to D in falsetto"). The King's drug-taking is not mentioned. Yet for the first time in Grove, stars of the past are handled bluntly. The deaths of Schubert and Schumann are attributed unequivocally to syphilis; Tchaikovsky's homosexuality and suicide are clearly acknowledged...
Sadie can be rough on his predecessors at Grove 5: "The articles on Rachmaninoff and Richard Strauss were not worthy of the subjects ... Organist and Composer William Wolstenholme left no impact on the history of music and he shouldn't have been in at all." The new edition is tougher and less sentimental. Sadie's own piece of Mozart, the longest single biography (89 columns) in the dictionary, is a good example. Says Sadie: "Mozart was not just a victim of infirmities and circumstances. He alienated potential patrons and that's partly why he died poor...
...strengths and weaknesses of huge reference works like the New Grove will take years to judge. But Macmillan is already planning Grove 7. Though it may be too early to shout encore! it is reassuring to know that Sadie and his band will play...