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...democracy, we are born members of the free world . . . Brazil's ideological position is Western and will not change." What he does favor, Janio emphasized, is an independent Brazilian voice in world affairs and increased friendship with Communist nations. "The East-West conflict," he said, "tends increasingly to restrict itself to ideological attitudes. We have faith in ours, and we wish no ill to people who differ...
Although the proliferation of new techniques in the 20th Century would seem to give composers a wide choice of possible styles, in reality it has had the opposite effect. For rigorous systems often restrict a composer under the guise of giving him order. Both neo-classicists and the most advanced experimenters find themselves in danger of mimicking some master. Slavish Fadism is far too common...
Carter approaches each composition as a problem upto itself, with its distinctive problems, medium and form. Conceiving of the quartet as a "series of events," he is concerned with the internal logic and organic development of that piece alone; no larger harmonic or formal systems restrict him. He is, in Isaiah Berlin's category...
...INTEREST RATES. The Fed was right in using its tools to restrict credit during incipient inflation, loosen it later. Dillon thus failed to back up a Kennedy campaign charge that the Fed pinched off the boom with high interest rates...
...legislative process would swiftly collapse into chaos. To exercise that control, the Rules Committee is equipped with powers to 1) decide whether a bill gets to the floor at all, 2) fix a maximum number of hours for debate on any particular bill, 3) set "gag rules" to restrict amendments to pending legislation...