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Self-Editing. A lesser and looser work than The Master and Margarita, it reports slyly the absurd difficulties of a young writer resembling Bulgakov. Maxudov, the hero, is a staff member for a journal called the Shipping Gazette, and he writes a novel for the same reason that prisoners make their ropes out of bedsheets. He reads it to his literary friends. Awful, they say. He steals a revolver and determines to edit himself. As he is gluing his nerve together, the editor of a magazine bursts in and offers to serialize the novel (which is called Black Snow...
...looser interpretation of the accords might avoid part of this mess, but to the chagrin of the Americans, the Indians, as ICC chairmen, have applied the unanimity provisions to the hilt. Until last week there was some doubt that the ICC would agree to the Cambodian and American plan entrusting it with surveillance of Cambodia's border. The Indians felt approval had to be unanimous and to secure Polish support, engineered a compromise which drastically limits the ICC role to investigating "specific complaints" after the fact...
...puts himself in a straitjacket." Certainly no one could accuse Hunt of being predictable, yet the 41 works at Milwaukee, created over a ten-year period, betray an artistic progression. Hunt's work has evolved from small, dark, intense, relatively small copper or steel constructions to larger, looser but still eerily vigorous ones in shiny aluminum. Hunt likes the polished effect that comes from disk-grinding the aluminum because "it changes its texture, and gives a volumetric quality...
...never come on stage with any approach, any list of songs. It all has to be spontaneous. We're attuned to anything that might happen. This is a freer and looser attitude. It keeps us totally involved with the audience...
...stimulate construction, money has been funneled into the mortgage market to stimulate home building. The Administration also got valuable aid from an occasional antagonist over interest rates. The Federal Reserve Board, spurred into activism by the appointment of new young economists, has worked through the winter to make money looser. Mandatory reserves at banks have been lowered by $850 million in order to free cash for loans. After a meeting of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee last week, $1.3 billion in Government securities were bought up to free still more money for lending. At his press conference...