Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Equal polish was apparent in the concluding work of the program Friday night, the light and diverting National Emblem March of E.G. Bagley. As through most of the other parts of the concert, particularly the Persichetti and Milhaud, the Concert Band rose to the full demands of tonal color and concerted playing. The trombones highlighted the instrumentation, and the piece was conveyed rather enjoyably--like the Gabrieli Canzon--with an obvious glee not always suitable in other parts of the concert...
Most Beirutis welcomed the Syrians joyfully, particularly because the arrival of the army marked an end to the nighttime shellings that have made the city an afterdark hell. Young boys happily clambered aboard the Syrian tanks. Women pelted them with rice and rose petals, Lebanon's traditional welcoming symbols. Behind the tanks, in another sign of trust that the 19-month civil war was over, came a civilian convoy-cars laden with mattresses, bedding and furniture-of Lebanese who had fled the capital when the fighting began...
...deepening business lull. The Government reported last week that real gross national product-total output, adjusted for inflation-rose only 3.8% in the third quarter, rather than 4% as was first estimated. Industrial production fell .5% in October, the second straight monthly decline, and housing starts also dipped. Carter in January is likely to propose a $10 billion to $15 billion tax cut to pep up demand; his chief economic adviser, Lawrence R. Klein, has said that the country may need an annual growth rate of 7% to reduce unemployment significantly...
Peculiar Inflation. If successful, this approach would markedly lower the inflation rate. A 6% wage guideline would be 1½ points lower than pay boosts have lately been averaging. As for prices, the consumer price index rose slightly less than 4% in October, but over the past year it has gone...
...seemed-happily ever after. While Dostoevsky was nonpareil, others came off less fortunately. Conrad, the letter reader learns, was a "distant admiration." Joyce was a doubtful quantity: "I don't know that he's got anything very interesting to say." Henry James emerged as "faintly tinged rose water." Ezra Pound was "humbug." Aldous Huxley, "in spats and grey trousers," proved eminently resistible. The elegant aphorist Logan Pearsall Smith left an impression of "perfect sentences of English prose served up in a muffin dish, over a bright fire, with the parrot on a perch...