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Ninth, Bruckner's Eighth lasts nearly 80 minutes; but it is a ripe and rather naive product of the 19th century, whereas the Mahler is an intense breakout into the 20th. The Berlin Philharmonic, its brasses shining, is led by Eugen Jochum, a Bruckner devotee who conducts with warm involvement...
Glueck believes the bill will pass. "I think the time is ripe because of the rise in crime and delinquency and the recognition of the virtual breakdown of current methods of dealing with the problem...
...Consent. Columnist Max Lerner, whose most recent book was called The Age of Overkill, used the occasion to go far beyond the immediate and practical problem of price. "The State of the Union address," said Lerner in the New York Post, "won our assent because we were wholly ripe for it-and Johnson had helped make us ripe. But it was full of worn and weary phrases. Its key concept of the Great Society has never been thought through, either by Johnson or-as far as we know-by anyone around him. Nothing in the speech, in word or idea...
...that controls 60% of all Belgian industry, a shadowy figure so inaccessible (no published picture of him exists) that even Société officials had difficulty getting to him, but who broke his usual silence in 1960 to argue against independence for the Congo, considering the Congolese "not ripe" for it; after a long illness; in Brussels...
...wattles, dewlaps and varicose veins, the lifetime work of Chicago's painter laureate. It is an exhibition for strong stomachs. Limbs were blotched and misshapen, rolls of flesh sagged swollen and pocked. In the background of the paintings were tumbles of battered objects, microscopically detailed, and all in ripe decay. Presiding over this exhumation was the master himself, smooth jowled, red cheeked and full of protesting innocence. "What I am really trying to do is to make a coherent statement about life," he said, "one that will force people to meditate a bit. I want to jar the observer...