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...crisp, clear, early autumn morning last week, LeTendre began a typical 16-hour campaign day-typical for him and for the 137 other Republicans and Democrats competing for marginal seats. Young (33), articulate, conservative and a former president of the National Jaycees, LeTendre ventured into a feed mill, roadside restaurant, bakery and hardware store. His opponent was "spending crazy," LeTendre charged. Agreeing with a disgruntled early morning beer drinker that property tax revenues should not be used for welfare, the candidate argued that Nixon's proposal to share federal revenues with the states would ease the local tax burden...
Stylistically, the colleges seem to favor fortress-like buildings. Whether made of humble brick, crisp steel or powerfully molded concrete, the structures somehow look ready for any attack. A case in point is the rust-colored, 13-story agronomy tower designed by Ulrich Franzen for the State University of New York at Cornell. It not only looks eminently easy to defend but also is assertive in its own right. With good reason. The agricultural college, long treated as a stepchild by Cornell, needed to get back into view. While marking the ag college with the tower, however, Franzen respectfully designed...
...started with a stick but found that it took on a life of its own, and did things I did not want it to do, like the Sorcerer's Apprentice." No danger of that this time. The "Haffner" Symphony was a model of Mozart interpretation-clean, clear and crisp-and in Mozart's Concerto in C Major, K.503, Fleisher afforded Soloist Claude Frank the kind of knowing partnership that made it seem as if the two men were playing four-hand piano -which indeed they used to do, as brilliant pupils of the late Artur Schnabel...
Partly he is seeking a form where it is still necessary to practice the old, unfashionable rites of careful plotting, factual scene setting and crisp narrative. The Green Man, though, is like an Amis novel with ghosts. Its tensions are dissipated at crucial moments by cold dashes of caustic humor. Its focus is blurred by a few too many themes and incidents. But it remains pretty high-grade Amis...
...salons were just as crowded, the mannequins as crisp and undernourished, the designers every bit as giddy and harassed as usual. The French fall fashion collections last week attacked the same urgent questions (whither hemlines? whether bosoms?), but the answers were not expected to come out of Paris alone. The punch is there still, but not the power...