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...Marcel Moyse had produced an impressive tradition of virtuosity. Oddly enough, the romantic composers could not find a place in their palette for the infinite colors of the flute, but Debussy and Ravel, the great impressionists, splashed patches of flute all over their sound paintings. Suddenly instrumentalists began to clamor for flute lessons. In Europe, the great teacher was Marcel Moyse; in the U.S. William Kincaid. Between them, these men developed almost all the important modern flutists-who in turn have badgered composers to write for the flute and musicologists to ransack the archives for flute music long forgotten...
Such a compromise, still far from certain, is about as far as France's Common Market partners can go. For supranational machinery is not an idealistic luxury but a necessity for the continuing growth of the Market. Already, for example, there is a clamor to harmonize business taxes among the Six-the old national systems have become an impediment to intramural trade. Some central authority must increasingly arbitrate and enforce common rules and laws beyond the sovereign confines of the member states...
...Michigan chemist who was brought up in an orphanage, figured that he could build an improved air-pollution sampler. He put together a device from hardware-store parts, has since amassed a $1,300,000 fortune from a filter-manufacturing business that is growing along with the public clamor for air-pollution control...
...incumbent, Gartland had been expected slip back into office amidst the general clamor for the status quo. The Wednesday newspapers blamed the loss on his affiliation with a reform group, the Citizens for Boston Schools. The citizens backed four candidates besides Gartland, all of whom lost after managing to get on the final ballot. The introduction of this reform slate crystallized the racial problem as a political issue...
There are widespread Catholic fears that such gloomy papal warnings against "radical revision" could lead to what Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak calls "a crisis of timidity" among the bishops. Taking their cue from Paul's warnings and from conservative clamor at home, bishops may be content to draw back from the full implications of aggiornamento. Already there are Catholics who complain that the council is a failure for having avoided the real issues facing the church?Christian unity and a radical revision of the church's institutions and forms. England's Canon F. H. Drinkwater, for example, wonders how Pope...