Word: minuets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diplomatic Minuet. Of even greater long-term significance is the impact of Sino-American relations on the Soviet Union. Washington acted to put the Peking trip into global perspective, emphasizing that the U.S. had not lost sight of the importance of its relations with the U.S.S.R. in preventing nuclear war. Yet a diplomatic minuet was required to get the point across. Moscow, apparently determined to express no alarm over the 'Washington-Peking rapprochement, did not seek a U.S. explanation-and Rogers was reluctant to summon the Soviet ambassador. But Anatoly Dobrynin's visit to the State Department...
...periods of prosperity, the relationship between creditor and debtor in the U.S. is generally as polite and stylized as a minuet. Now the minuet has become a danse macabre. Many consumers, trying to husband their dollars in a time of diminishing incomes, rising unemployment and ridiculous prices, are letting their unpaid bills pile up. Businessmen, strapped for cash themselves, are prodding tardy customers faster and harder than ever, while artfully dodging their own debts. Unable to collect their bills, many companies are paring down their operations, and some are simply dropping out of business...
...little' G minor Symphony is one of Mozart's most intriguing pieces. It is much more forceful than most of the earlier Mozart, written in 1783. I find the minuet in the third movement most astounding, since it lacks the airy, flighty tones of the typical minuet. However, in his intensity of interpretation, Schneider made it an even darker and more foreboding piece than usual...
Sophie Portnoy. No wonder. Of Israel's icy but adroit Foreign Minister Abba Eban, Sylvie wrote: "He is old, rare wine in a plastic bottle. He dances the minuet in an age of rock. He knows all the steps, but his partners step on his toes and kick his shins." Of Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir: "If a creature from outer space met him, it would run in fear." But her sharpest arrows are saved for the Premier herself. In a column called "Madame Kingdom," she compared Mrs. Golda Meir to the reincarnation of the three furies rolled into...
...seven board members and the twelve regional Federal Reserve bank presidents, only five of whom vote. The FOMC decides how much new money to pump into the banking system, which in turn lends it to businessmen and consumers. Under the consensus-seeking Martin, FOMC meetings followed a minuet-like ritual. Everyone had to make some sort of report on economic conditions, with Martin always speaking last and summing up what he thought was the majority sentiment. Under Burns, members speak only if they wish, and anyone can break in with questions. Burns himself speaks...