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Another bright sign for the economy is that consumer confidence and retail sales remain robust. Several department store chains last week reported hefty profit gains during the first three months of the year. Earnings were up 17% at Allied Stores, 18% at Dayton Hudson and 21% at Federated. Auto sales in mid-May rose 18.2% over the same period a year...
Ashkenazy takes an elegant approach to the cycle, caressing the music with an exquisite tone and spinning it out with an effortless technique that lets the music speak unimpeded. In the robust First Concerto and the rippling Second, Ashkenazy pays homage to the music's Mozartean wellspring in a clean, carefully articulated reading. The Third Concerto finds him in a more passionate, but still fundamentally classic, mood; the piece was, after all, written around 1800, while Beethoven's teacher Haydn was still alive. The revolutionary Fourth Concerto, in which the piano daringly speaks before the orchestra, gets an introspective, reflective...
...childhood sweetheart and, as a state legislator, helped defeat a proposed ban on the teaching of evolution. Said Ervin at the time: "The monkeys in the jungle will be pleased to know that the North Carolina legislature has absolved them from any responsibility for humanity." Despite his own robust Presbyterianism, he was an absolute church- and-state separatist...
...think that it is bound to make public service less attractive to certain individuals. But the press is surely no more robust today it has been in this country's history in the candor of its attacks on misfeasance or malfeasance in public office...
Meantime, Bush, the professional mourner (six funerals of top foreign leaders), was Reagan's eyes and ears when he gripped Gorbachev's hand in Moscow last Wednesday afternoon. Funerals are robust ground for political intrigue. Bush, the former CIA head, hardly needed coaching. From the Brezhnev and Andropov burials he returned with mental notes on eye contact, humor, intellectual agility, confidence, vitality, tailoring, shirt collars, hair color, complexion and hand size...