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Restraint also marked the music and performance of Kent Kennan's Night Solilquy whose small scale manages to save it from cliched post-romanticism. Senturia's reserve eliminated the occasional triteness of the orchestral part, but on the other hand it weakened the score's build-up to a flute trill. Alex Ogle provided one of the really moving points in the evening with his supple runs and dynamic shadings...
...acceptable solution seems to be a combination of "finite deterrence" with a build-up of local conventional forces for limited warfare. Far more workable than either massive retaliation, which is useless against attrition, or total disarmament, which carries with it excellent incentives for violation, this plan would aim at a situation in which...
...Perhaps, as is often alleged, public opinion in the West would not support [local build-up of conventional forces]. But no one can know, for the issue has never been presented to it. If the democracies cannot muster a leadership willing to stake its political future on a program essential to survival, its political future is dim indeed...
...true that one cannot fully appreciate the rationale behind apartheid and its seeming abuses without actually living in South Africa, political common sense leads one to suspect that tolerance before a moderate such as Luthuli would contribute more to the longrun stability of Africa than suppression and a subsequent build-up of resentment and latent violence. Apartheid relies on an almost feudal concept of society, of lords and meek, obedient serfs (Africans of all ages are referred to as "boys," according to the New York Times) which would seem untenable, given the fact of industrialization, no matter how ill-educated...
...longer afford the huge surpluses being piled up by this efficiency is doubted by most farm experts. Even if the support scandal continues, there is something for U.S. taxpayers to be cheerful about. Rising efficiency keeps down the cost of food. The mountainous grain surplus currently is causing a build-up in cattle-breeding-pointing to an eventual price break...