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...second destructive influence, says Barzun, is the culture boom itself. "Feeling the old attachment to high Art," Barzun sees in the "very abundance and availability of the democratized arts the causes of a prompt dissolution...The powerful devices of mechanical reproduction and high pressure distribution to which we owe the cultural 'awakening' necessarily distort and thus destroy. All the new media make arbitrary demands on the materials fed through them. And because the public to be served is large and failure costly, it is important that the product suit-hence the endless cutting and adapting, reworking and diluting...
...less at the ready, they go through their maneuvers like a ruptured accordion. Moreover, Guthrie has the courage to salvage the unsalvageable. At one point, the major general is the very model of comic relief when he buries a boring ballad by aping a concert singer ineptly palming a prompt card. When the card flutters away like a leaf, he imperturbably unpockets another, finally loses his aplomb in a venomous facial duel with the orchestra...
...Goldberg, Detroit became convinced that the Administration was prepared to take extraordinary action in case of an auto strike that might jeopardize the business recovery and the defense speedup. While General Motors figured it could economically risk a walkout, it also figured that to do so would only invite prompt government intervention that very likely would enforce the same kind of settlement that G.M. accepted voluntarily...
...some of the nation's ablest officials, who had been driven to despair by the chaotic rule of affable President Sukarno. From Sumatra to the Celebes, more than 100,000 men flocked to the rebel colors. Demanding more autonomy for the outer islands and prompt suppression of Indonesia's potent Communist Party, the rebels initially got cloak-and-dagger assistance from Washington's ubiquitous C.I.A...
...period of glycolysis), perhaps to as long as half an hour, Dr. Gaievskaya is experimenting on dogs by chilling the brain, to 77° F. She then takes as long as 24 hours to let the brain return to normal oxygen use. Dr. Negovsky's method of prompt resuscitation is claimed to have saved thousands of Russians who were "clinically dead"; Dr. Gaievskaya's modifications would extend its scope in both time and numbers...