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The opera is remarkably powerful. All melody pared to its bare essentials, Janáček'a music illuminates Čapek's bizarre tale with a cold, exciting glare. Characters declaim in energetic syllables that leap from one end of their voices to the other, too tense to...
In the exchange's quarterly report, Haack noted the upturn in stock trading volume and said that those brokerage firms that have pared personnel and operations selectively "will enjoy a distinct advantage over their competitors when it comes to handling a resurgence of business." His message: companies that have...
Last week he shook up conservatives again by making his bank the first sizable one to cut the prime rate-the basic interest charge on loans to businesses with the best credit ratings-from 8% to 7½. Jokingly, he said that he pared the prime partly because "our bank...
But Nixon also requires a measure of popular support, or at least quiescence, if he is continue to govern at home. Therefore it seems very likely that the next few months will see the Administration try to settle in for the long haul in Vietnam by smoothing out the rough...
Similarly, Joan Didion's prose is as insidiously effective as the painless touch of the anesthetist's needle she herself describes. Her sentences, pared down bone clean, are chilling in their authority. She tells her story so quickly, so mercilessly, there is simply no disputing what she finds. Her prose...