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...hope there would be no academic championships or effigies. Unlike Winthrop Sargeant I will not lament the absence of an identifiable tradition as a terminus ad quem. I agree with Stravinsky that the nonexistence of the past is necessary for anyone wishing to start from scratch. Musical comparisons can be annihilating just as compassionate historicism can be illuminating...
...length. Newsmen thus have little fear that they will be used, seduced, or played off against one another. If Nixon regards the press as a friendly adversary rather than an auxiliary tool of Government, his relative aloofness also means that reporters must work harder to scratch the smooth White House veneer and find what lies beneath it. So far, key presidential aides have proved to be much more wary of candid revelations than those of the past two Administrations...
...Scratch a wine expert, find a frustrated poet. Wines are seldom good or bad; they are "serious" or "sprightly," "frivolous" or "untrustworthy." When New York Wine Importer Frank Schoonmaker talks about "sunny, lovable little fellows, never a bit sullen or ill-tempered or withdrawn," he is not boasting about his children or a litter of puppies; he is describing the wines of the Rhine and Moselle river valleys...
...legal power to stop the trend. Diversification by merger has long been an attractive tactic for industrialists who were anxious to reduce profit-sapping fluctuations in the demand for individual goods and services. It is easier and quicker to diversify by buying a going concern than by starting from scratch. But Government antitrust barriers often stand in the way of combinations within a company's own field. They may prevent not only "horizontal" mergers with competitors, but, to a lesser degree, "vertical" mergers with suppliers or customers. The present law, though, generally enables companies to take over other enterprises...
...Black Caucus will propose setting up a new, more representative committee "to start out studying the problem from scratch," the student said yesterday...