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Greenness & Greyness. For all its virtues, which are many, and its faults, which are considerable, London has a large measure of that special quality that was once the hallmark of great cities: civility in the broadest sense. It takes away less of a person's individuality than most big cities, and gives the individual and his rights more tolerance than any. In texture, it has developed into a soft, pleasant place in which to live and work, a city increasing its talents for organizing a modern society without losing the simple humanity that so many urban complexes lack...
Musicologists traditionally have chastized the French for stultifying their music-dramas with interminable ballets and stage spectacles. Few admit, however, that such practices first flourished in an era (Lully's) when musical expression was pictorial (in the broadest sense) rather than truly dramatic, and thus more suited to the accompaniment of dance than the lofty depiction of experience. Hippolyte abounds with charming gavottes and minuets, airily scored (Rameau was one of the few Baroque composers to treat every instrument independently). But the critical theatrical moments--Thesee's confrontation of Hippolyte and Phedre, Neptune's grant of clemency to Thesee...
Broad & Debatable. The decision is one of the broadest-and most debatable-ever made with regard to antitrust laws. The FTC has long worried about the increasing concentration in the food-merchandising industry. In earlier decisions it ordered three of the largest U.S. dairy chains, Foremost, Borden and Beatrice, to divest themselves of small companies they had acquired. It recently ordered Grand Union Stores to get rid of nine stores, and Consolidated Foods to spin off three chains as well as a dairy and a bakery; it is still investigating the Kroger Co. for 42 chain-store acquisitions dating...
Outlandish Politics. In a broadside letter of resignation, he called Schneider's decision 1) a "mockery of the Paley-Stanton crusade for broadest access to congressional debate," and 2) a "business, not a news judgment." Moreover, he added, the revised chain of command was an "emasculation" of his authority, a surrender to a man, he contemptuously noted, whose "news credentials were limited in the past to local station operations, with little experience in national or international affairs." In short, it was a stand for principle, and the emotional Friendly included in his letter references to his longtime colleague Edward...
...company ever, collects 22.8% on its capital. Reason for A.T. & T.'s modest return: as the nation's No. 1 private monopoly, it is sternly regulated and frequently investigated by Federal and state governments. Last week the Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to begin history's broadest investigation of the Bell System's interstate and foreign rates, costs and earnings...