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...reduction package of tax increases and spending cuts in a 219-213 vote. After frenzied eleventh-hour lobbying, the White House persuaded just enough Democrats to support the program, which is intended to reduce the deficit $500 billion over five years. The House was supposed to be the easy chamber for Clinton; the battle there suggests that the struggle for passage in the Senate may be all the more ferocious...
There were lions in that chamber in those years. Or you could call them whales, grand political men (three women, no blacks) with all the flaws of the day and hardy battlers for their partisan causes. But they were by almost anybody's standards an extraordinary collection of public figures: Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, Vermont's George Aiken, Missouri's Stuart Symington, Connecticut's Prescott Bush, Montana's Mike Mansfield, Ohio's Bob Taft, Arkansas' Bill Fulbright, Virginia's Harry Byrd...
...instruments and put on private musicales. In "model" camps such as Theresienstadt (Terezin) in Bohemia, the inmates were even encouraged to perform for visiting Red Cross workers to show that they were being treated humanely. The late French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote one of this century's most illuminating chamber works, the Quartet for the End of Time, while incarcerated in a Silesian camp. Messiaen survived. But for most victims time was something that indeed came...
...most accomplished composer of the three was Schulhoff, whose String Quartet No. 1 and two other chamber works, which date from 1924-25, reveal the kind of craftsmanship and imagination to be expected from a student of Reger and Debussy. The quartet in particular is outstanding, combining the rhythmic snap of Bartok with the plaintive melodic lines of Kodaly...
...according to Nash, who has already produced three plays in the ghostly echo-chamber, the pool has a special charm as a theater...