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...four-hour chamber work was innocently titled Elegy for Young Lovers, but the plot was anything but innocent. A predatory poet has earned fame by secretly transcribing the rantings of a middle-aged widow, driven mad by the wedding-night death of her bridegroom 40 years earlier. For further inspiration, the poet sends two young lovers to their death on an Alpine peak, and as the curtain falls, he is reciting his latest opus: Elegy for Young Lovers. The tragicomic moral: death for art's sake...
...city of Bielefeld, Henze played the piano at five, took ballet lessons at six. Drafted into the Wehrmacht at 18, he continued his musical education at Heidelberg and Paris, soon decided that "old-style music sounds pale and insufficient." He spent the next 15 years rattling off dozens of chamber works, symphonies, ballets and operas that earned him a name as a one-man revival of German music...
...debt in the U.S. reached a record $883 billion in 1960, the Commerce Department reported last week. Yet for all the U.S. conservative's traditional preoccupation with the dangers of debt, news of the new record was received with monumental calm by that eminently conservative body, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
...reason for the Chamber's calm is its conclusion, reported in a 42-page analysis of U.S. debt, that in fundamental economic terms, "we do not appear to be more 'in debt' now than at other times in our recent past." Total debt in the U.S. has more than doubled since 1946-but so has the gross national product, whose parallel growth has kept the relationship of total debt to national production about the same. For those who think the Government is the spendthrift, the growth figures contain some surprises. Since World War II, personal and corporate...
Bridging the Gaps. Even the enormous growth of private debt does not dismay the Chamber, which argues that "economic growth depends heavily on debt expansion." In fact, as any businessman knows, debt is one of the economy's most valuable lubricants. It helps bridge time gaps between the production of goods and their sale, channels savings into productive investment, allows capital to move more freely, and permits greater equality in buying by allowing people to buy against expectation of future income. The availability of credit strongly affects the economic activity of such groups as small businessmen, home buyers...