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...surprise in the inflationary giveaway was the peace-at-any-price vote of business representatives. Evidently convinced by mine owners that the contract was their only hope of settling the six-week coal strike, all five joined with the labor members in approving it. Public members wanted to chop the increase to 12.5%, and three voted against the 15% rise; the others abstained. The ones who voted expressed an understated doubt that inflation will decline "if increases of this magnitude are permitted...
...were entirely modern and difficult pieces of music. They were very successful recordings (Columbia OS 3550 and KOS 6080 respectively) because care was taken by the producers to make each song a coherent entity and a working part of the whole. Sondheim's scores work that way and to chop his songs up one must sacrifice the carefully constructed effect which each piece of music has on the total score and the produced work...
President Nixon deserves some credit for being the first U.S. President to extend a conciliatory hand to Mao's China. He eliminated the U.S. ban on travel to China, and had the temerity to call China by its legal name. But the great chop forward was executed by the superb play of the Chinese table-tennis champions at world competition in Nagoya, Japan (see SPORT). Peking obviously saw no danger of humiliation in inviting the American team, which ranked about midway in the 54-nation field, to play exhibition matches in several Chinese cities, with all expenses paid...
...until his return to New York and his marriage to Marie Jane Hughes that Marin took possession of his freedom as a painter. The Manhattan watercolors of 1911-13, with their thrust, chop and bustle of tower, facade and street, are a peculiarly American reaction to that delight in the tempos of urban life that, at the same moment, had seized the Cubists in Paris and the Futurists in Italy. It was a web of movement, great and small, that he would pursue for the rest of his career, and he described it with his usual laconic concreteness. "In life...
...turns. The pantheon of the past retreats. Now it is 1971. From his Oval Office, Nixon sends to the Senate the nomination of a Mississippi judge for the Supreme Court. Zap! Confirmed. He asks $10 billion for an expanded ABM system. Pow! Appropriated. He proposes cuts in school funds. Chop! Done. In one corner of his dream stands a forlorn J. William Fulbright, talking while no one listens. With other prickly Democratic Sena'e oligarchs, Fulbright has been toppled by a Republican capture of the Senate. In a far recess of the Senate chamber, a vestigial cluster of radic-libs...