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...sturdiness. A trusting character, he's not terribly bright. He understands nothing of the immortal intrigues going on above his head, and proves his virtue by doing everything he's told. Rather than being clever, he is supposed to be pure in heart; today one would call him a sap. Pamina is a first irritatingly childlike--dressed in over-feminine gowns and ribbons, she cries a lot and isn't good for much of anything. But she grows from child to woman in a believably gradual manner, and her strength is clear from the way she leads Tamino through...
...other witnesses. He must call her back, days later, past 3 a.m. in the morning, to find out how she's doing, and attempt stubbornly and hopefully to find a continuity in these fragments. Innocence of this scale is unimaginable; Gifford's just too much of a sap...
...Spaces" features John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea. But he's forgotten anything he might have learned from them. Reknowned once for his lightening notebursts and technical fire, Coryell has settled back into a soft-pedaled brand of music which is only a string chorus away from being supermarket sap. July 31-August 3 at the jazz Workshop...
...group of mostly liberal thinkers, including Economist Wassily Leontief, Investment Banker Robert V. Roosa and United Auto Workers' President Leonard Woodcock, have called for the establishment of a U.S. office of national economic planning. They have in mind not a stiff bureaucracy that would sap freedoms by handing down directives, but a forward-looking group of several hundred scientists and technicians (and a few economists) who would study the future of the U.S. economy much as a savvy company studies its market. Relying on such factors as population trends and the likely availability of resources, they would try to estimate...
...papers, Glikes came off as a sap, a sweet guy who shared a few tender moments with Kearns until Goodwin swept onto the scene and left his nose out of joint. Kearns and Goodwin weren't so flattered by the newspapers' stage directions, but they both stressed Glikes's ingenuous attachment as a real wrench in the editorial works while Kearns had been with Basic...