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...rhetoric, it becomes pensive, then playful, and sprints away into the upper registers to drift off into what is marked "no tone." At another point a glissando emerges from the rattle motive to dive upon the melody below, swoop up again pursued by a line of single notes, and exhaust itself in a final upward surge...
...those in command of American foreign policy, Kissinger has a valuable message: "The West must have much more positive goals than to divine Soviet intent." We must unbend from our defensive diplomatic position, adopt a course aimed at implementing specific aims, especially in Africa and Asia, and not exhaust all our ideas in containment of the Soviets, "As the strongest and most cohesive nation in the free world," Kissinger states, "we have an obligation to lead and not simply depend on the course of events...
Tooling through Sydney on his way to race in the New Zealand Grand Prix, Britain's balding Ace Driver Stirling Moss, 31, all but smothered himself in his own exhaust of self-crimination. "I'm a slob," he announced. "My taste is gaudy. I'm useless for anything but racing cars. I'm ruddy lazy, and I'm getting on in years. It gets so frustrating, but then again I don't know what I could do if I gave up racing." Has Moss no Stirling virtues? "I appreciate beauty." One of Nikita Khrushchev...
...adversely affects human efficiency. The Air Force's Dr. von Gierke says: "It impairs both manual dexterity and accuracy." A normally accurate, responsible aircraft mechanic may unconsciously rush, through his work, do a slipshod job, if he happens to be working in the neighborhood of a whining jet exhaust. When officials of Aetna Life Insurance Co. cut office noise levels 14.5% by installing acoustic wallboard, they found that typists' errors dropped 29%, machine operators' errors fell 52%, employee turnover decreased 47%, and absenteeism declined...
...mind. And if the mind reels, that is just the effect Dubuffet wants. "A work of art," says he, "must have a significance so profound, so universal, so numerous and diverse, that each can drink from it the liqueur that he likes. Never explained (to explain would be to exhaust), never totally deciphered...