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...Beethoven concertos in a smooth, glassy style, as opposed to the passionate, warmly phrased playing of the late Artur Schnabel, Van Cliburn, even Daniel's friend Vladimir Ashkenazy. Barenboim's more recent recordings of Mozart's concertos Nos. 17, 20 and 21 are still too bland and bloodless. This year's set of the complete Beethoven 32 (like his current Tully Hall cycle) has weaknesses, notably a prevailing glibness in the remote, mysterious late sonatas. But his approach has deepened to provide brilliant moments, poetic tone painting as well as intellect. Clearly, Barenboim is working...
...love the book for its original, easy soups, its recipes for two sinful chocolate cakes and its truly triumphant vegetable dishes. In fact, Julia's conquest of zucchini may be more influential than her mastery of all-purpose flour. By grating zucchini, she has eliminated the old bland, waterlogged mess and, in effect, created a solid new vegetable with an elusive, nutty flavor...
...reject the support of the John Birch Society. California dumped flamboyant ultra-conservative Max Rafferty and George Murphy in favor of Riles Wilson, a soft-spoken moderate, and John Tunney, who campaigned as a moderate liberal. In New York, Conservative James Buckley harped on social discontent, but in a bland, nonmalicious manner, while Charles Goodell lost votes with his outspoken liberalism. Edward Kennedy had himself photographed with hard hats, and Hubert Humphrey repudiated his former support of gun-control legislation...
...revolution," says Bill Wheeler, leader of a north California commune, referring primarily to a revolution in sensibility. But while the drugs, the clothes, the hair, the music and the language of the counterculture have become monotonously familiar, its diet has been relatively ignored. Counterculture food, while relatively bland, is nevertheless distinctive and pervasive. When Yale students played host to Black Panther supporters last spring, for example, they fed their thousands of visitors not hot dogs and Coke, but a special recipe of oats, dates, sunflower seeds, peanuts, prunes, raisins and cornflakes. Indeed, at Woodstock itself the free kitchens...
...envy of Turgenev. May I commend you especially on the book's inventiveness and control. Having the depressed Ganin find new vitality through his memories while awaiting Mary's arrival from the Soviet Union creates a natural suspense of great force. Making Mary the wife of a bland squirt who also lives at the boardinghouse ensures a tasty intrigue. And finally, having Ganin realize that Mary and Russia can never be repossessed except by memory, establishes a motif that certainly warrants fuller development in any other novels you may be planning to write. Next time, however, please...