Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford is given considerable credit by economists for sharpening his skills during the months he has been in office, even though circumstances have forced an abrupt shift in his policies. He declared inflation public enemy No. 1, as indeed it was at the time he became President. But willing to listen and anxious to build a consensus behind any policy, he turned to others for advice. In retrospect, his celebrated summit conferences probably inspired more fear among consumers than new policies among experts. Though some economists warned that the recession was going to bite harder than Ford thought, none...
Hersh's complex personality seems suited to his work. He is in turn talkative, churning, abrupt, zealous, egotistical and abrasively honest. His impact is like a blast of air rushing in and out of the insulated corridors of Washington's secretive institutions. On a story, he goes day and night: tousle-haired, tie askew, he searches out sources high and low, working the phone, visiting homes, establishing rapport-often among junior staffers-and furiously scratching notes (he does not use a tape recorder...
...These quartets are the summit of Beethoven's chamber music. It is music that makes no concessions, ei ther to brain or hand, and sets no store by charm. The Végh Quartett makes sense of these bristling compositions with their many movements, many rhythms, many ideas, abrupt changes of character. The group is most convincing in the melancholy opening fugue of the C-Sharp Minor but lacks the emotional reach required by the sudden deaths and harsh clashes of the Grosse Fuge...
...even Harvard Band half-time shows. Lenny's style is blunt, even callous, creating outlandish imaginary situations: the Lone Ranger becomes a lonely homosexual who can't accept gratitude; Adolf Hitler is reduced to a house painter, cast as the Fuhrer by ambitious producers. His delivery is equally abrupt--he bends words, runs phrases together and throws away punch lines like a jazz musician improvising a solo...
Kissinger detailed the seriousness of the matter. The industrial nations' payments deficit of $40 billion this year is the largest in history; the developing nations' deficit of $20 billion is primarily caused by oil prices; financial institutions have been badly strained by the "abrupt and artificially sustained" price rise. "If current economic trends continue," Kissinger warned, "we face further and mounting worldwide shortages, unemployment, poverty and hunger . . . Democratic societies could become vulnerable to extremist pressures from right or left to a degree not experienced since...