Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...completed in 1947, this brilliant, troubling work is usually thought to be about World War II. The composer denied it, but the first three movements make up a harrowing musical storm that subsides at last into a serene speculation for strings inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." The Lark Ascending is a delicate, attenuated tone poem for violin, played by Hugh Bean with proper lyricism. Conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult certainly lives up to his reputation as Vaughan...
...Oldsmobile (up 14.4%) were the biggest gainers. At the Chevrolet division, the Chevy II, a model that falls somewhere between the compact and the intermediate, had sales of nearly 90,000 units, up 45% from last year. Pontiac sales (up 7.3%) are once again being led by the intermediate Tempest...
...last week, as some 500 of the company's 52,000 bewildered stockholders gathered for their annual meeting in Manhattan, A. & P. was in a first-rate tempest. With their stock crushed down from its 1961 peak of $70 (it closed last week at $26.75), A. & P. shareholders have long been restless over the company's declining (now 18%) share of grocery-chain sales. Last year its profit of $56 million (on sales of $5.4 billion) was off a bit from the previous year, despite Jay's robust prediction that earnings would be "running at a record...
Timothy's tempest brewed...
JUDD FOR THE DEFENSE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Tempest in a Texas Town," voted last year's Best TV Mystery by the Mystery Writers of America. Repeat...