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...chit-chat. Miss Hellman indicates that love has been over-advertised. In her work it never takes on mystical qualities or solves life's problems upon arrival. Similarly, talent by itself means little; accomplishment is a truer index. After a certain stage of the game, latent talent will not bloom and the magic turning points won't arrive. The author's technical refusal to base the play on a crisis situation is beautifully suited to this theme...
...bloom finally off the West German economic miracle...
...Crane was a drunk and had a penchant for throwing his typewriter out a window becomes more important than his poetry. All in all, the book brings to mind a remark of Joseph Conrad's: "In plucking the fruit of memory, one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom...
Long the world's highest-paid violinist,* Kreisler was famed for both his astonishing musical memory and his aversion to practice: sometimes he would go a whole summer without touching the violin on the theory that "if I played too frequently, I should rub the bloom off the musical imagination." In the mid-1930s, Kreisler astonished the musical world-and embarrassed critics-by confessing that for years he had been palming off a whole series of his own compositions as the works of such classical composers as Vivaldi, Martini, Couperin, Dittersdorf, Pugnani. Explained Kreisler: "I found it inexpedient...
...Even so, the experts are choosing their stocks with considerable care. In recent months, they have favored "defensive" issues that tend to advance in tandem with the population growth and the rising standard of living, e.g., food, cosmetics, tobacco, publishing, insurance, utilities and banks. As of last week, the bloom was off most of these rosy issues because prices have skipped far ahead of earnings forecasts. Now the experts are eying the industries that tend to curve along with the business cycle-oils, industrial machinery, rails, chemicals, paper-and which stand to profit if general business activity picks...