Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite a slowdown in housing and a few durable-goods industries, notably autos, the Federal Reserve all year long made a determined attempt to hold down spending. Stumping the nation with the fervor of a Johnny Appleseed, FRB Chairman William Martin pleaded with businessmen to take another hard look, and perhaps cut down on expansion and their demands for credit. "Creating more money will not create more goods," he argued. "It can only intensify demands for the current supply of labor and materials. That is outright inflation...
Manhattan Composer Henry Brant is flute-prone. When he spots a vintage model he has never seen before, his eyes glitter with excitement and he examines the old vented tube with the fervor of a doctor hunting a symptom. "Wow," he will say in wonderment. "Look at that plumbing!" Then he places mouthpiece to lip and, if the instrument is not too leaky, ripples out a modernist roulade. One of Composer Brant's finest works is a fond flute dream called Angels and Devils, a concerto for flute and flute orchestra. Now it is on records, soloed by Frederick...
...tale of bold emprise in old Nippon. In his latest film, Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon) has plucked the epic string. And though at times, in the usual Japanese fashion, some dismal flats and rather hysterical sharps can be heard, the lay of this Oriental minstrel has a martial thrum and fervor that should be readily understood even in those parts of the world that do not speak the story's language. Violence, as Kurosawa eloquently speaks it, is a universal language...
...Argentine army is split, the navy is not. Aramburu hastily deployed 16 warships in the River Plate off Buenos Aires and La Plata. Insurrectionary fervor cooled off fast. At week's end Bengoa was under arrest, and the government announced, reassuringly, that the shakeup would not be made a pretext for postponing elections...
...burns with a passion for the Absolute, and the Hellenic "nothing in excess" is precisely the law she could not live by. Her grandeur, as well as her absurdity, it has been pointed out, is that she shares the apocalyptic vision of the Old Testament prophets with their incandescent fervor and their rare and terrible purity. Simone Weil embarrasses, as a saint embarrasses, by her childlike refusal to deviate from her personal vision of the pure, the good, and the godly, wherever they might lead. "It's a lucky thing for all of us," a friend once told...