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Gromyko's session with Mondale on Thursday was almost certain to be short on substance and long on exhortations for both sides to resume negotiating. For Mondale even to hint that he was actually dealing with Gromyko on matters about which he and Reagan are known to disagree would cause a political fire storm, throwing the Democratic challenger open to the charge of disloyalty. Mondale was the first to disclaim any such intention. "America has only one President at a time," he said he would tell the Soviet Foreign Minister. "When Mr. Reagan speaks to you on the 28th...
Difficult Loves may further confound the unwary. All of its 28 stories date from the 1940s and '50s. Their language (some pieces have been translated by William Weaver, the rest by Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright) is straightforward, with nary a hint of narrative nudging. A few seem little more than sketches; in A Ship Loaded with Crabs, for instance, a group of young boys explores a half-sunken hulk, repulses a boarding by a rival gang and then swims off. But that is not quite all. A resonance lingers; the sound of splashing and the play of light...
...There is a cacophony of voices-political, news media, television, movies-mocking the very moral and spiritual base from which America came to be a great nation." The speech was typical of Helms' campaign style: short and calculated to reinforce a "them vs. us" position. There was no hint that Jesse Helms, 62, in the U.S. Senate since 1972, is now fighting for his political life...
...drown the haunting elegance of his rival's work. Even though the public prefers his own sing or melodies, Salieri is tormented by the knowledge that Mozart alone possesses true genius. And so the jealous man seizes upon a plan of total destruction. In a voice that carries no hint of remorse, the aged composer reveals to the speechless Priest his decision to commission a requiem from Mozart, and then murder his rival. At the funeral, the cathedral would swell with a stirring mass for the dead musician, written by his devoted friend Antonio Salieri...
...that shaped Mozart's work: the adoring but somewhat insipid "Stanzie," who can't understand why her husband has no pupils; the domineering and disapproving father Leopold, whose death would prove the terrifying inspiration for Don Giovanni, and Mozart himself, whose violent genius was not tempered by even a hint of modesty or pragmatism...