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Kimball had only a modest business career in Arizona before he became an apostle in 1943. His self-effacing manner and sieges of heart trouble and cancer led many to believe that he would be a caretaker President. Instead, he proved to be an energetic activist who toured 85 nations and spurred the international growth of the most successful religion ever born in the U.S. He was the first to put Asians and Latin Americans into Mormonism's top ranks, and permitted leaders of foreign jurisdictions to live overseas rather than in Salt Lake City...
...waters of Hamburg harbor is, if you are a gentleman of a certain age, roughly equivalent to watching Phil Niekro win his 300th game. It extends the effective life of one's youthful fantasies a few minutes more. But while stimulating that harmless activity, Target also encourages a modest re-examination of the ideological scaffolding on which the older generation erected some of its dreamwork...
...their music and his should cross-fertilize. Besides, he is striking a blow against the "reactionary and racist" music business. Objectively, it has never seemed a dangerous hotbed of those sentiments, but the man's heart is in the right place. Just watch him being loyal, trustworthy, gutsy and modest. Also creative, wise and sensitive. One could almost imagine Mother Teresa sitting in for a set. But Michael Apted's documentary is lively and well made and has a saving sense of humor. If Sting is only half as good as the movie makes him out to be, that...
...Symphony No. 1 (also known as Three Movements for Orchestra), her pieces suddenly began popping up on programs everywhere. Today Zwilich is that rarity, a composer who makes her living entirely from commissions, performance fees and royalties, without having to rely on teaching or grants to ensure a modest but adequate income...
Bunroku Yoshino, president of the Institute for International Economic Studies in Tokyo, predicted that Nakasone's modest plan would have little impact. He expects the Japanese growth rate to slip from 4.5% this year to 4% or even 3.5% in 1986, primarily because the country's exports will increase at a slower pace. The government is reluctant to adopt more potent stimulative measures, like large tax cuts, because it wants to keep the Japanese inflation rate, only about 2.5% this year, firmly under control...