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...great hope for the world, is an idea still viewed on both sides with skepticism and wariness. Out in the neutrality of space, a successful Soyuz-Apollo linkage would be an extraordinary performance, both technically and politically. Down here on earth, detente is not susceptible to technology's brisk logic - and is a more difficult, more complicated business...
Grayhaired Doxiadis was dapper, shrewd and brisk-a silver fox of a man who was equally at home designing mud-brick houses for Zambian peasants or diagramming his thoughts (with multicolored felt-tip pens) for Western intellectuals. He was born in 1913 of Greek parents in Bulgaria, was bred and educated in Athens, and earned a graduate degree in Berlin. His talent shone early: at 23 he became Athens' top town planner; at 25 he was chief of regional planning for all Greece. Then came World War II (Doxiadis was a Resistance hero) and after...
...indicators that traditionally foreshadow an economic recovery, few have been more doggedly consistent this year than the stock market. For nearly six months, prices on Wall Street have climbed steadily higher, higher, higher as investors have shifted more and more cash into the market in anticipation of a brisk business upturn later in the year. Last week this confidence helped propel the Dow Jones industrial average up another 17.68 points, to a new 1975 high of 873.12. While that is still well below the Dow's alltime peak of 1051.7 in 1973, it nonetheless represents a hefty 50% rise...
...versions of this or that movement, including the finale of No. 103 ("Drumroll"). The appendix shows that as fast and prodigiously as the composer worked, he was never too busy for probing second thoughts. In this concluding album, devoted to Haydn's last great symphonies, Dorati's brisk style does not quite capture all the nuance and power that lies in the music. Otherwise, the record is a commendable capstone to a proud...
...British Library. He worked on his directory at home while watching television. "I continue to be astonished that such a simple test should be adequate to distinguish more than 10,000 classical themes," he says modestly. His publishers are even more surprised at the volume's brisk sales. Before reviews appeared, and despite a stiff hardback price of ?6 (about $14), bookshops began reordering...