Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bonn, meanwhile, was put on notice that its whole Ostpolitik of seeking peaceful relations with the East would be in jeopardy. Calling the missile issue "literally a touchstone," the Soviet news agency TASS warned that Bonn's inclination to go along with the NATO plan was in "clear conflict with the officially declared objectives of the German Federal Republic's foreign policy...
...When the court is working on the margins of things, it would be expecting too much to get clear and ringing answers,'' says Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe. ''Yes, this court is un even and divided; it is feeling its way. But to do otherwise would undermine the credibility of the institution.'' If the lib eral Warren Court has not become the conservative Burger Court, if the Nixon appointees have failed to march in lock step, it should come as no surprise. It is merely a reflection of the integrity, and In deed...
...more unlikely mountaineer could be imagined. Slight, sedentary, intensely fastidious, bored by hiking, Anton Webern nevertheless trudged determinedly up the alpine slopes of his native Austria. ''From time to time,'' he explained to his friend Alban Berg, ''I must breathe this air. Transparent, clear, pure-the heights...
...primeval plant,'' symbol of the unity of all organic life. Most important, his moun tain treks re-enacted his artistic aspirations. More than any composer before or since, Webern worked on the timberline between sound and silence. His austere, rigorously condensed pieces seem to hover in a clear, rarefied ether of their own, like clusters of ice crystals on the point of vaporizing. ''Scarcely audible,'' ''dying away'' are typical directions in his scores...
...Blotner's notes make clear, Faulkner accepted editorial quibbles and orders to revise or rewrite with little complaint; it comes as something of a surprise to watch the future Nobel laureate acceding to the demands of the popular press. As a result of such proddings, Faulkner's magazine stories were usually simpler, more straightforward and less resonant than his finest work. Reprinted in Uncollected Stories, these early versions inspire a sense of deja vu, for Faulkner frequently expanded and reshaped his published stories and inserted them in novels. A tale of his called The Bear appeared...