Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's anti-inflation policies), he ordered his staff to write in straightforward quasi-conventional prose. But by his own reckoning he achieved only "41.3% success." As evidence Kahn offered a departmental rejection slip: "The involved document, though clothed in diplomatic costume, is no more than a transmittal note and is, thus, of no decisional significance." "There was nothing I could do but cry," Kahn lamented. "I felt so lonely and futile...
Secrecy, for all its sinister implications and past abuses, is a device of Executive authority. Security on normalizing relations with China was maintained for six months, and one of the reasons was that Carter penned a marginal note on his early instructions to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, saying that the matter was to be limited to four people besides himself. The handful of men who worked out the scheme to buy dollars and raise interest rates were equally devoted to secrecy. When Secretary of the Treasury Michael Blumenthal heard that one of his assistants had picked up the scent...
...accept this is to be blind to boundless activity by innumerable social and political groups. In its farewell issue, New Times depicted this as a "decadent" age; yet the magazine itself, though born out of the sensibilities of the '60s, went out sounding a faintly puritanical note that was proof that not everything had been infected by decadence. American journalism has always been inspired more by the Mafia than by the Gray Ladies. Moreover, it has a recurring weakness for the kind of tunnel vision that imagines a glimpse into Plato's Retreat reveals the daydreams...
...London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Colin Davis conductor, Philips; 2 LPs). Under Davis, Beethoven's great Mass moves majestically from the solemn opening Kyrie to a troubled Agnus Dei, in which timpani and trumpets dramatically evoke man's troubled state, before the Mass ends on a serene note. The performance is both spiritually and musically intense, and the chorus sings like the heavenly hosts...
...Decade. The author is described as Judy Klemesrud, "an avowed feminist and veteran New York Times reporter." How wide the phenomenon of the lusty-again woman is, and how detached an observer of the trend Klemesrud is, gets called into question, however, when "Backstage with Esquire" goes on to note: "Klemesrud is sending out Christmas cards this season that bear a striking photograph of her lying face down on a fur rug, stark naked...