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When asked if small business can co-exist with big business, Miss Rand replied that it is "only when big business is free that small business can exist and flourish...
...which arose in the mid-40's represented a radical enlargement of the tonal and rhythmic language of traditional jazz. Yet it became clear after a few years that bop had its own limitations, but it had developed certain specific conventions within which only the greatest improvisors could flourish. When these improvisors were not forthcoming, some, like Horace Silver, worked out partial solutions, but these were largely formal in nature...
Harbison's five-movement work, placed in the middle of the program, vacillated strangely from the dramatically original to the depressingly banal. In the first movement, "Fanfare," for example, an oom-pah-pah calliope followed an exciting, dissonant flourish. But Harbison nicely exploited the resonance of the piano and the technical facility of the flute...
...there still is an American Dream, the State of Texas is the American Dreamland. Here flourish the myths-of slim-hipped, soft-voiced frontiersmen and sky-eyed, sexy gals; of boom town bragging and spaces that are Great and Open; of easy wheeling and cool dealing that turn a fortune at the breakfast table and double it at the barbecue; of a DC-3 on every private airstrip and His and Her Cadillacs in every garage...
...political career in Massachusetts, he implies that politics per se perpetuates its own corruption. Rather, as he indicated earlier, it is the complete subordination of issues to personal interest, not the favors system itself--an essential lubricant in the wheels of government--which has allowed graft to flourish in this state...