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...fast lane. Fairly oozing confidence in these young turks, Broder seems to have tried to interview them all-everybody. This desire to get at least a few paragraphs on every up-and-coming city councilor or county executive in the country is half of the book's most serious flaw. Broder boasts having interviewed 300 people for his 500-page tome; a selective paring of the number of people discussed would have streamlined a bulky text...
Chrysler has also negotiated a unique company-wide product-quality agreement with the autoworkers' union. If an assembly-line worker sees a product flaw, he is instructed to tell his foreman, who is obliged to fix it. If the problem recurs, the worker is urged to report it to the plant's new union-management quality committee...
...indeed they are written for the true believer, for they admit of no possible party flaw. If there are national problems, those are the fault of the other party, which is castigated at length. As Finley Peter Dunne's fictional commentator Mr. Dooley noted of a practiced platform writer, "Whin he can denounce an 'deplore no longer, he views with alarm an' declares with indignation...
...flaw is a 72-bar cut in the recapitulation of the first movement. Though the cut was sanctioned by the composer, it would have been preferable to present the work whole, since the concerto surely will not be recorded again soon. This aside, the performance is definitive; and the disk, filled out with Cordero's Eight Miniatures for Small Orchestra, won for Allen the Koussevitzky Recording Award from an international jury. But outlets for Allen's dazzling abilities will depend on the colorblindness of concert managers and audiences...
...sins for which the Chinese condemn the Soviets. Soviet theorists inscrutably justify such inequality as a "non-antagonistic contradiction." Others, including some Marxist dissidents, claim that the system has not really created an elite class, since political power and its direct perquisites cannot be inherited. But there is one flaw in that argument: the ease with which the nachalstvo can arrange good educations and careers for their offspring tends to perpetuate their privileged status. Despite the historical gulf that separates them from the pre-revolutionary regime, the Communist elitists enjoy their prerogatives as unabashedly-and guard them as jealously...