Peter Eotvos, Hungarian Modernist Composer and Conductor, Dies at 80
A tireless advocate of contemporary music, he adapted literary sources both modern and classic, instilling his work with “inimitable character and pathos.”
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A tireless advocate of contemporary music, he adapted literary sources both modern and classic, instilling his work with “inimitable character and pathos.”
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He served four terms in the Senate from Connecticut and was chosen by Al Gore as his running mate in the 2000 election. He was the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket.
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He helped pioneer a branch of the field that exposed hard-wired mental biases in people’s economic behavior. The work led to a Nobel.
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She became an award-winning author of children’s books and young-adult novels despite debilitating health issues and the murder of her father.
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Stephen Adams, Who Made Yale Music School Tuition-Free, Dies at 86
A billionaire businessman and a late-blooming piano aficionado, he set a record with the anonymous $100 million gift that he and his wife gave the school.
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Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85
His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced.
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Marjorie Perloff, Leading Scholar of Avant-Garde Poetry, Dies at 92
A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem.
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Lee Berry, Black Panther in a ‘Radical Chic’ Time, Dies at 78
He was one of the prosecuted Panther 21 in New York, and his account of abuse in jail was a catalyst for Leonard Bernstein’s famous Park Avenue fund-raising party.
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Lisa Lane, Chess Champion Whose Reign Was Meteoric, Dies at 90
She was the first chess player to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated. But people focused more on her looks than on her ability.
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Overlooked No More: Henrietta Leavitt, Who Unraveled Mysteries of the Stars
The portrait that emerged from her discovery, called Leavitt’s Law, showed that the universe was hundreds of times bigger than astronomers had imagined.
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Overlooked No More: Yvonne Barr, Who Helped Discover a Cancer-Causing Virus
A virologist, she worked with the pathologist Anthony Epstein, who died last month, in finding for the first time that a virus that could cause cancer. It’s known as the Epstein-Barr virus.
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Overlooked No More: Miriam Solovieff, Lauded Violinist Who Suffered Tragedy
She led a successful career despite coping with a horrific event that she witnessed at 18: the killing of her mother and sister at the hands of her father.
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Overlooked No More: Betty Fiechter, Pioneer in the World of Watches
She started out at Blancpain as an apprentice and eventually took over as an owner, a move that one industry insider noted was “totally unprecedented” for a woman.
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Overlooked No More: Pierre Toussaint, Philanthropist and Candidate for Sainthood
He became wealthy working as a hairdresser in New York, then used his funds to free enslaved people, build churches and house orphans of color.
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Her work looked at how race and power are experienced in America. In 2022, she filed a lawsuit saying that the appraisal of her home was undervalued because of bias.
By Campbell Robertson and Debra Kamin
He was held prisoner in nine concentration camps. Decades later, he fought a battle against American Nazis that became a major free-speech case.
By Richard Sandomir
Mr. Angelos oversaw 14 consecutive losing seasons, the worst run in franchise history, but the team is now a winning ball club about to be sold to new owners.
By Alex Traub and Emmett Lindner
In 1964, at the height of the civil rights movement, he became the first Black pilot for a major commercial airline in the United States.
By Michael S. Rosenwald
For more than seven decades, Laurent de Brunhoff painted the adventures of the world’s most beloved elephant.
His recordings of Beethoven and Chopin were hailed as classics, but his technical ability sometimes invited controversy.
By David Allen
After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a modest elephant and his escapades in Paris for seven decades.
By Penelope Green
A poet, publisher and professor, she channeled the revolutionary spirit and deconstructionist currents of the 1960s to challenge the conventions of poetry.
By Alex Williams
Born into English wealth and Oxford-educated, she left it all behind for a life of radical and often violent activism.
By Clay Risen
At 15, he escaped to England. At 20, he enlisted in the British Army and identified a German minister — whose roles included deporting Dutch Jews to labor camps — as he tried to flee.
By Richard Sandomir
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