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...Northrop revelations were greeted largely by an everybody-does-it yawn. Said one French official: "That American false puritanism makes Americans really think everything is pure in business. Clearly, oil, arms, electronics and telecommunications deals are usually fertilized a bit." The use of agents and consultants is not peculiar to Northrop. Khashoggi has represented Lockheed, Raytheon and Chrysler, and General Stehlin is still listed by Hughes Aircraft as a consultant...
...London Philharmonic; Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor; Turnabout/Vox; 5 LPs; $19.95). In his later years, the doughty Sir Thomas sometimes conducted Mozart in a cantankerous, self-indulgent way. But during the 1930s, when most of these London Philharmonic recordings were made, he displayed superb poise, control and mastery of the peculiar blend of fire and ice that lie at the heart of Mozart's music. Beecham's recording then of the euphoniously ethereal No. 39 in E-Flat Major, for example, was the first that could truly be called great. It remains splendid in this reissue...
...made the Revolutionary generation wonder whether there could ever be one nation across the continent-the vastness of the land, the diversity of landscapes and climates, the conglomeration of peoples, the mixture of skills and traditions, the variety of religion-finally proved to be the nation's peculiar strength...
When such conditions are present, the results can be moving. Alpha (1975), with its ribbed and sharply folding tentlike shapes of orange steel, is arguably one of the most successful pieces of monumental sculpture produced by an American in the past decade. No photograph can convey the peculiar intricacy of space that it develops from what seems a simple formula of two skewed triangular prisms, one inside the other...
...writer to know I should end the piece here; it is what is known as a good closer. You can hear everything but the chapel bells ringing at the end of the hour. But I want to go on to one thing else that needs saying and is peculiar to this strange, huge, shapeless class. Someone at CBS, talking about the intramural struggles taking place there, said. "What you're observing is not a war of liberation or even a drive for power itself, but a war of dislodgement...