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...inevitable call for restraint was surprisingly well received at last week's gathering in the capital city of Canberra. The unions seemed willing to settle, for the time being at least, for modest wage increases pegged to the consumer price index. Business leaders struck an equally harmonious chord. Many, in fact, went so far as to advocate a freeze on senior management salaries, shareholders' dividends and medical fees...
...Nabokov disliked the blunt instruments of art. "I remember with delight," he liked to say, "tearing apart Don Quixote, a cruel and crude old book, before six hundred students . . ." Yet he lectured on the book at Harvard, partly because it was required reading but also because it struck some chord in the speaker. The lectures, reconstructed by Editor Fredson Bowers, disclose reasons for that resonance...
Many of these characters hastily assemble first collections lest Time catch up with them. The other more humble type of poet sits on a steadily growing pile of work and publishes it only when he is sure his words will strike a chord. Such a poet is Alan Williamson. The poems in his first collection. Presence, have been written over the 12 years Williamson has taught English at colleges from coast to coast. Any of them would probably have made the kind of mark Williamson hoped for if published as soon as written. Taken together, they present a stunning elevation...
...adventures are held together by a guiding sense of larger purpose-not only of the author but of the universe. Of her other works-a series of family stories, a few volumes of poetry, memories and novels for audiences of various ages-none has struck nearly so loud a chord...
...group compared immigrant forebears, Reagan rising to eloquence on how newcomers built the country. That struck a chord with Morris, an immigrant from Kenya 14 years ago. Now he was sitting at the table with the President of the U.S. Just the point, said Reagan. America needed to stay open so that its democratic miracle could be renewed from generation to generation. "You may be the first President to say that since Wilson," Link told Ronald Wilson Reagan, adding, "I like your middle name...