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...very greatest works- Petrouchka. Le Sacre du Printemps, Les Noces, Pulcinella. Apollo, Symphony of Psalins, the Mass, and the incomparable, Igon-Igor Stravinsky never yielded to the "luxurious gloom of choice" which has afflicted so many artists of this century. He pulls the mind of man above itself by the renovation of new rules. In this last book he laughs life into lucidity, he laughs the world into health. It is now an old man's laughter, pungent, compassionate, never self-serving...
Panicky Rumors. Before the President's jawboning and the technical rally last week, the gloom over the long bear market had turned to despair in Wall Street. Panicky rumors flew-that several mutual funds were insolvent and dumping stocks, that several computer-leasing firms were about to go bankrupt. Goodbody & Co., a major brokerage house, had to deny that it was going out of business. Francis I. du Pont & Co. laid off 15% of its research staff; most of Shearson, Hammill's executives took pay cuts of as much...
...self-consciousness, enclosing themselves into half-perceived mausoleums of hope and fear. What renders this so complex is that Chekhov displays his people without reference to idea, but only to the organic progress of their personalities in pressure against one another. As we listen to these houses of funereal gloom, passionate outbursts, and ordinary living, an encompasing theme emerges. The hopes and fears which animate men and women also ravage them. Hope, fear, despair, joy, melancholy, grief, are all founded in vanity, and all alike operate to destroy the heart which created them in its passionate longing for happiness...
...things-usually only self-love-and the complacence which can come from believing you understand your vanity, is most harmful. Johnson writes of the treachery and hunger of the human heart and imagination: the need for hope, and the folly of self-deceptions which languish life away in the gloom of anxiety. Chekhov writes of the misery of overwrought people struggling to maintain self-control against unhappiness they do not understand. Both writers see themselves subject to the same errors and anxieties. Johsnon, despite his reputation as a prodigious moralist, majestically ordering life with indefatigable lucidity through the irresistible...
...Pacific Northwest: For gloom, this region is in a class by itself. March unemployment in the Seattle area jumped to 7.4%, up more than two points in a month and well over double the 3.2% rate of a year earlier. Reason: severe layoffs by Boeing (TIME, March 9). The electric utility Seattle City Light reports that its annual rate of cancellations and shutoffs has been double the usual 5%, indicating that many people are fleeing the area to scout for work elsewhere. For the jobless who remain, the Washington state legislature has voted to raise unemployment compensation from a maximum...