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Both Spassky, 35, and Fischer, 29, are at the peak of their considerable powers. Both are walking Univacs in their book knowledge of chess, having long since memorized the basic strategies of games past. And both are classicists whose mature chess styles are broad, clean and lucid. Their major difference is in motivation. Spassky says, "Chess is like life"; Fischer says, "Chess is life." Thus, while Bobby lives only for the game and comes on charging, hell-bent on destruction, Boris affects an air of supreme detachment. "For me personally," he says, "it doesn't matter if Fischer wins...
...high into the atmosphere. Once released, the barium particles formed into ionized clouds that were used to study the movements of winds in the upper atmosphere and the shape of the earth's magnetic field. To the German public, Lüst is even better known for his lucid scientific commentaries over television during Apollo moon shots. That combination of talents may be highly productive. By using his influence with his fellow scientists as well as promoting greater public understanding for basic scientific research, Lüst could lead the Max Planck Society -and, indeed, all of German science...
...pleasing contrast to all of this was the lucid, sensitive playing of clarinetist Harold Wright in the best of the three compositions performed. Here was a performer who cared enough not only to master the technical problems for his own instrument, but also to bring forth some sense of the compositional beauty of the music at hand: Brahm's 'honorable mention' for the evening. Dynamic markings were tastefully observed; phrases were si un out to their intended length, and, quite often in dialogue with the cello, passed gracefully to Neikrug, who, taking the opportunity to be heard, broke the continuity...
Midnight Oil is written in lucid, supple prose-exactly suited to a testing and savoring memory. At first one naturally brushes past the author's frequent avowals that as a young man he wrote very badly. But late in the book he quotes a description of the Great Smokies written in 1926, and sure enough it is just awful: "From their highest elevation bannered a stilly chrome wash of startled light...
...Boccaccio sitting reading outside the wall, is full of Italianate elements, from the proportion and drawing of the naked Adam and Eve to the handling of perspective. Yet it is wholly original, and in this exquisite image of paradise, with its angels' wings and apples shining in the lucid air, the trajectory of French miniature painting reached its peak...