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Hungary is probably the most attractive and livable country in the East bloc. After Poland, it is also the most liberal: the press is relatively lively, repression is seldom visible, travel is more freely allowed than elsewhere in the East bloc. János Kádár's government has no peer in public relations among its Eastern European friends; a recent round of price hikes was announced a year ahead of time to soften the reaction. An economic plan put into effect last year looks suspiciously like capitalism, with financial incentives and broad leeway for managers...
...Darman and Laurence E. Lynn Jr. of the J.F.K. government school estimate that 40% of all decisions involving corporate capital investment now are determined by considerations other than profits or the best interests of shareholders and employees. Instead, the determining factor is Government policy; and it, of course, is seldom based on a comprehensive grasp of relevant economic facts. Sums up Dunlop in a masterly understatement: "We need to find better ways to work on the problem...
Symphony players, says Gunther Schuller [July 21], are embittered, disgruntled, bored, apathetic and cynical. Right. Schuller blames the musicians' union, boards of trustees, conductors. Wrong. The blame lies mainly in the nature of the work itself. Symphony players seldom enjoy the music they are playing because, while they can usually hear what is happening in their immediate surroundings, they can't hear the whole. Moreover, there is no occupation as regimented as orchestral playing. Every note has to be played as the conductor wants...
Caught up in his dream, the Shah worked hard, putting in 15 hours a day at his desk in Niavaran Palace in Tehran. He seemingly found little happiness in either his public or his private life. He seldom smiled, and his voice lacked warmth or expression. His first marriage, to Egypt's Princess Fawzia, King Farouk's sister, ended in a 1948 divorce when the Shah concluded that she could not give him a male heir (a daughter, Princess Shahnaz, is now 39). Three years later, the Shah married Soraya Esfandiari, a beautiful Iranian commoner. He divorced...
...Fourth of July speech today is seldom the shapely purple cloud of bombast that it once was. That style is nearly extinct. The old eagle-screaming rhapsody, the Everlasting Yea, survives mostly in wistful, or merely empty, references to Jefferson, in Smithsonian pageants or in the elegiac drone of a speaker recalling something that happened a long, long time ago, almost in another country...