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...Life" (HarperCollins; 640 pages; $35), Maynard Solomon does more to humanize the composer than any biographer before him. For two centuries, TIME critic Michael Walsh says, listeners have been unable to reconcile Mozart's ineffable music with his bawdy childishness: "The easiest and most common method has been to regard Mozart as a sort of child god whose works welled up spontaneously." But Solomon's sharply-written, layered chapters document the grown composer's own psychological caving-in to the legend of his prodigious childhood. Says Walsh: "Mozart and the members of his circle come vividly alive...
Most U.S. allies regard the embargo as a useless obsession that has failed to bring Castro down for three decades. Last October the U.N. General Assembly recommended an end to the embargo by a vote of 101 to 2; only Israel joined the U.S. in saying no. ``Why should the U.S. maintain economic sanctions against Castro if it is willing to trade with Hanoi and Beijing?'' asks a European diplomat. A senior Clinton official can only reply, ``History matters.'' The Administration, he says, ``probably wouldn't seek to create an embargo if it didn't already exist. But there...
...Life" (HarperCollins; 640 pages; $35), Maynard Solomon does more to humanize the composer than any biographer before him. For two centuries, TIME critic Michael Walsh says, listeners have been unable to reconcile Mozart's ineffable music with his bawdy childishness: "The easiest and most common method has been to regard Mozart as a sort of child god whose works welled up spontaneously." But Solomon's sharply-written, layered chapters document the grown composer's own psychological caving-in to the legend of his prodigious childhood. Says Walsh: "Mozart and the members of his circle come vividly alive...
...tremendous success demands that we ask whether or not he is indeed taken seriously. Given the 20 million listeners that tune into his radio show each week, his relationship with government leaders, and the weight Chairman Greenspan believes to be carried by his opinion, it seems naive to regard him as a figure on the sidelines of the political game...
...highly critical brief, Packer wrote:"Keith Light's actions with regard to thisauthorized deception are not only illegal, but aremorally despicable...