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...promise that all important decisions in these vital areas be made by mutual consent-although no one was sure how a government could function effectively under such conditions. After an hour's talk, the delegates emerged for a breather and a good cigar. In a surprisingly mellow mood...
...then someone will remark that Things are Not as They Once Were, and the rest of the guests at tea will agree that This is Bad. But progress mostly marches backward; a theme of several Barsetshire books is the evolution of the crude factory owner, Sam Adams, into a mellow squire by marrying one of the lesser county girls and becoming Acceptable...
...lawyer by training and a resourceful negotiator, Christian Socialist Gorbach symbolizes his country's mellow talent for compromise and conciliation; after Dachau he urged a forgive-and-forget attitude toward ex-Nazis not guilty of specific crimes. (" 'Good Lord,' I asked myself, 'how often shall victory and persecution alternate with each other?' ") But last week even Gorbach's conciliatory skills could not budge the U.S. from its stand opposing Market entry of neutral nations...
...Piano and Orchestra, as Stravinsky worked toward the refinement of sound, he was substituting mere mechanical skill for invention and vitality. One of last week's new works - Eight Instrumental Miniatures - seemed to confirm that impression. Consisting of "recomposed" material from 1921. his Miniatures were charming, light, mellow and infinitely adroit, but they did little more than sound echoes of such early Stravinsky triumphs as The Soldier's Tale...
...Japan's pocket paparazzi crawled all over one another for a better shot. In the eye of the storm at Tokyo International Airport, the dapper figure stood unruffled, not even clenching a tiny fist. "Too much has been written about me being difficult and obstinate," crooned a newly mellow Frank Sinatra, 46, on the first stop in a two-month world tour to raise money for children's charities. "There's no new Sinatra. The difficulty has been on the other side." To prove it, Frankie actually chatted amiably with "the other side"-newspapermen-explaining that...