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...formal takeover last week of Rhone-Poulenc and four other industrial groups, with total 1980 sales of $46 billion, plus 23 banking and financial institutions, and the appointment of 27 men and one woman to head the nationalized firms. Yet those captains of socialist industry looked much like their capitalist predecessors. In fact, at two firms, they were the very same faces, and at most of the others they might as well have been...
...spectacularly, and could therefore get himself-Tolm-quietly out of the way. Amplanger stood for stock exchange, Olympic shooting team, tennis, Zummerling, and teeth-grinding ruthlessness. Perhaps they wanted to speed up Amplanger's election-he, Tolm, radiated too many humanistic thoughts, self-doubts, too much capitalist melancholy...
...struggle. The working class in Russia, to the extent that it existed, ended up a bystander rather than a key actor. The old order that was cast onto the trash heap of history consisted of an enfeebled aristocracy and a corrupt officialdom rather than a fully developed bourgeoisie or capitalist class...
...vulnerability." Richard Pipes, the hard-line anti-Soviet historian from Harvard who now serves as a specialist on Communist affairs for the National Security Council staff, stresses offensive over the defensive drives. "Militarism," he says, "is as central to Soviet Communism as the pursuit of profit is to capitalist societies," and this militarism has mixed with what he calls "Russia's traditional expansionism...
Henze does not drive a Rolls-Royce, but he is no stranger to capitalist success. The premiere in 1952 of his first major opera, Boulevard Solitude, brought him widespread attention. By age 40 he had recorded all five of his symphonies-he has since written a sixth-with the redoubtable Berlin Philharmonic. His opera The Bassarids was given a triumphant first production in 1966 at that bastion of conservatism, the Salzburg Festival; another opera, We Come to the River, was premiered by London's Royal Opera ten years later. Commissions are plentiful, and Henze is active as a conductor...