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...CONDUCTOR who preferred a Bronx cheer to apathy would likewise probably prefer to be remembered as an egotist--that he wasn't--than be forgotten. For with his quirks and bitter sarcasm we inevitably associate his idiosyncratic genius and adventurous spirit--sometimes fatal to the ambitious musician's career, but always vital...
...sing what she later called "ungodly raw" songs in Southern black nightclubs. A decade later she started performing for white folks, and was already known as "Queen of the Blues" when Irving Berlin heard her at Harlem's Cotton Club and cast her in As Thousands Cheer. A tremendous hit, she went on to the dramatic roles she preferred, including that of Berenice Sadie Brown, the compassionate and eloquent cook in both stage and screen versions of The Member of the Wedding. In 1951 she published His Eye Is on the Sparrow, a frank, resentful, sordid account...
Though no one in the Administration is ready to cheer a yawning trade gap and a weakening dollar, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and other top officials are by no means upset by them. They believe the best way to perk up the sluggish world economy is for the relatively well-off nations to buy more from depressed countries by either revaluing their currencies (to make imports cheaper) or expanding their economies faster (to increase demand for foreign products). The main reason for the big U.S. deficit, Treasury officials contend, is that the American economy has been growing at a much...
...high point of two frenetic days of travel, though, was Carter's stopover in Charleston. The spectacle of thousands of people turning out in 100° temperatures to cheer the presidential motorcade as it wound through Charleston's narrow myrtle-scented streets evoked familiar campaign memories, but Carter quickly made clear to the legislators that he had a much broader-and more distant-audience in mind...
...party is being thrown for Colin (Eli Wallach), out of sympathy. His fiancee of 14 months has just drowned. Diana (Anne Jackson) gets the group together. She feels that Colin's "friends" ought to cheer him up, even though none of them has seen him for three years. When Colin arrives, it is clear that he is past cheering. He is a human cork, with matching brain, who could bob merrily on a tidal wave of disaster. Grief is all Greek...