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...death knell of the city," predicts Boston City Council Member Louise Day Hicks. "People will not comply," says State Senator William Bulger. "They will leave the city." From Hyde Park to South Boston the doomsayers were in full cry last week, and their bombast was directed at Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity. In a 104-page court order, Garrity produced his final plan for desegregating the city's troubled schools-a decision that promises, at the least, to keep Boston in turmoil for months to come...
Propaganda bombast aside, Ho Chi Minh, dead or alive, provided the crucial element in North Viet Nam's astonishing victory. No statesman now alive, except Yugoslavia's Tito and China's Mao, has so shaped his country's destiny. With his skill, cunning, sense of history and unshakable will, he turned a peasant and impoverished country into a force that exhibited fervor and zeal rarely matched in this century...
...York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Momoyama: Japanese Art in the Age of Grandeur," together with its exemplary catalogue supervised by the Met's assistant curator of Far Eastern art, Julia Meech-Pekarik. The title, puffy as it sounds, is not (for once) a piece of museological bombast. The Japanese government has cooperated to the hilt, or tsuba, lending many works which are inaccessible even to the Japanese: these registered National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties have never left Japan before. They include such extraordinary objects as the sliding doors that Kanō Eitoku, aged 23, decorated with...
Apart from a lovely opening melody this piece exemplifies the self-indulgent bombast of many last-Romantic works. It has become popular as a showcase for virtuosos, however, creating excitement and interest through unrelenting technical demands...
...amount of bombast could hide the concerned mood of the meeting. The recession in the industrialized world, caused in part by towering oil prices, has sharply reduced demand for OPEC crude. This has lowered revenues for oil producers, who have had to cut production. OPEC output, which averaged 33 million bbl. a day in 1974, is now down to an average rate of 27 million bbl. Cartel officials note that even with shrinking demand, oil producers are taking in more money now than they were a few years ago. Yet the more production falls, the closer OPEC comes...