Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Always an innovator, Rodgers liked to introduce surprising harmonic complexities. But his melodies had an unfailingly natural flow and simplicity that, in retrospect, seemed like inevitability. Many were built on the basic steps of the scale (My Romance, Dancing on the Ceiling) or returned repeatedly to the same note or notes while varying the patterns in between (Isn't It Romantic?, The Blue Room). Behind such simplicity lay a subtle craft...
Apart from Iran and its fallout, 1979 was a year of turmoil highlighted by an occasional upbeat note: hopeful stirrings that offset to a degree the continuing victories of the forces of disruption (see page 34). On a spectacular visit to his homeland of Poland and to the U.S., Ireland and Mexico, Pope John Paul II demonstrated that he was a man whose warmth, dignity and radiant humanity deeply affected even those who did not share his Roman Catholic faith. Despite his rigidly orthodox approach to doctrinal issues, the Pope's message of peace, love, justice and concern...