Word: goode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pastoral, the orchestra sings with a kind of warmth and lyric affection typical of Walter's musical vision. In the sterner period of the Seventh and Ninth, it takes on an incandescence and brilliance that elevate both performances to dazzling heights. Not all of the set is equally good, but all of it is imbued in some degree with Walter's ageless enthusiasm. At one point during the rehearsal of the Third Symphony, he exhorted the strings to greater effort, rewarded them with an ecstatic cry: "There you are! And it's paradise! Such a pianissimo...
...museum to his tastes, Ultra-modernist Sweeney had used flat white paint and light to cancel out a good many Wright concepts. Canvases were mounted unframed on rods projecting from the dazzling white wall. Bright, fluorescent lights were installed in the side skylights, canceling out Wright's sunlight but creating a brilliant background wall of light. As a result, the paintings seem to hover weightlessly in luminous space. "We are not trying to show nature effects in sunlight, but paintings," Sweeney stated. "This is the most spectacular museum interior architecturally in this country. But my job is to show...
...highest interest rates (5% and up) in 28 years-is the result of demand for credit spawned by the strong upsurge of the new boom. But it is also the result of fumbled fiscal policy. Who is to blame for that? Says Alexander: "The Administration's policy is good, and the Treasury is doing all it can.'' The real villain, he says, is Congress. It has refused to raise the 47% ceiling rate on long-term Treasury bonds, thus forced the Treasury to do its financing at competitive rates in the short-term market, to which private...
Alexander believes there may be more jiggling of rates when holiday financing steps up and the steel strike ends. But, he says hopefully, "there is a good likelihood that the worst pressure on rates is past. A sustained strong upward force is unlikely." He does not think that tight money will harm the boom: "The supply of money and credit is not exhausted. The banking system is heavily loaned, but not loaned up." He is not concerned about high money rates, points out that for long periods short-term rates wrere actually above long-term yields. Says...
Even more than most windups of multiple novels, The Mansion ties up so many loose ends that the string can sometimes hardly be seen for the knots. For a good deal of the way, The Mansion recapitulates the first two books. Flem's dirty deals,Wife Eula's electric sexiness, Daughter Linda's womanly inheritance from her mother, nice Lawyer Stevens' frustrated hankering for them both-none of these can easily be appreciated without some help from The Hamlet and The Town...