During its heyday in the 1960’s and 70’s, Motown Records was known as a “hit factory.” It’s difficult to imagine anyone who can’t recognize the songs and the sound of Motown. Propulsive, sparkling, spotlessly arranged, and refined without sacrificing grit or flow—their aural character is of a piece.
Motown founder Berry Gordy consciously took the Read More
During its heyday in the 1960’s and 70’s, Motown Records was known as a “hit factory.” It’s difficult to imagine anyone who can’t recognize the songs and the sound of Motown. Propulsive, sparkling, spotlessly arranged, and refined without sacrificing grit or flow—their aural character is of a piece.
Motown founder Berry Gordy consciously took Read More
It’s odd to recall that Henry McBride, the premier critical champion of early American modernism, once described Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), whose photographs are the subject of a captivating exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as “a natural-born ascetic,” adding: “He is like a Mondrian who dispenses with charm.” Nowadays, we’re more likely to characterize Read More
What would it take to push Saddam Hussein off the front page? How about the Ford Motor Company going bankrupt? Impossible? Not according to Egan-Jones, a rating agency whose founder, Sean Egan, recently told Grant’s Interest Rate Observer : “If the name weren’t Ford, they would have been forced to file for bankruptcy already.”
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You’d think that a senior executive and scion of a great family business that bears his name would be extra careful about the way he conducts himself. But if you think that, then you haven’t met William Clay Ford Jr., the 45-year-old chairman and chief executive of Ford Motor Co., the American car giant founded Read More
