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Strange Sounds. The focal point of Goodman's house, however, remains the music studio. He practices almost daily, plays for friends at parties, and often works on classical pieces with his daughter Rachel, 24, an accomplished amateur pianist. "After all," he says, "this is my life-music. I couldn't be content any other way." He even seems to have made his peace with the rapid evolution of jazz styles away from swing in the past two decades. Not that he approves. "I can understand the modern in classical music-in a composer like Bartok, for example...
...university as a base for power. The campus is the chosen focal point for activity. It is the place to arouse interest, recruit members, raise money, organize action, and from which to launch attacks on chosen targets. The trade union, the political party, and established voluntary organizations are no longer viewed as generally useful vehicles. Politics, in particular, takes too long and involves compromise...
...something that did not happen: the failure of the Cabinet to pass a bill that would at last grant a measure of religious freedom to Spain's tiny non-Catholic minority. The reason that the non-passage caused such a furor is that the religion issue is the focal point of a struggle between government factions about how fast and how far Spain's new trend toward liberalization should...
Rejecting the idea that the Vietnamese war could become the focal point of the meeting, Feltenstein said that she hoped that a "new perspective on foreign policy" would emerge...
...focal point of the tour is the Oct. 24-25 Manila meeting that will bring together Johnson and six Asian heads of government for talks on the Viet Nam war. The objective, the President told his news conference last week, is to "give an opportunity for the leaders of the men who are committed to battle in Viet Nam to meet and explore ways of finding peace, and for bringing an end to the conflict and for making that area of the world prosperous and peaceful in the years to come...