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...offers instead is an interesting potpourri of perceptions, suggestions and possibilities. He demonstrates, for example, the despair of the hero of Winterreise by noting that Schubert consistently describes reality in a minor key and changes into the major only when he is shifting into fantasy. This is a somewhat technical point, necessarily, for most writing about music is either technical or gush. In addition, Robinson has the wit to confess "that I occasionally make the music say more than it really wants to, that I have extracted unearned intellectual capital from a phrase, a passage, or a modulation whose true...
...dinner, with the government leaders of Canada, Britain, West Germany, Italy and Japan. He also held bilateral sessions with each of these leaders. (French President François Mitterrand boycotted the proceedings out of pique that he had not been consulted before the meetings were scheduled.) The sessions yielded somewhat mixed results: some allies seemed a bit uncomfortable with the shift of emphasis away from arms control and urged Reagan to make a new effort on that front...
...Muslim, Mwinyi is expected to continue Nyerere's socialist economic policies, despite their mixed results. As for Nyerere, he will retain the important post of party chairman for at least the next two years. He plans to travel extensively throughout Tanzania in an effort to restore the peasants' somewhat diminished faith in the party and its programs. "It is better to step down while I still have full strength," he said of his retirement, "in order to be with my fellow Tanzanians to build the country." --By Hunter R. Clark. Reported by James Wilde/Dar es Salaam
Increasingly aware of the stakes and feeling somewhat upstaged by the well-oiled conservative machinery, Democratic Senators plan to ask tougher questions of the Reagan nominees, and have hired their own judicial-selection specialist. Some liberal lobbyists are campaigning to head off targeted candidates before the President formally chooses them. One measure of that tactic's success may be the fate of Law Professor Lino Graglia of the University of Texas, who has publicly opposed busing. He is expected to be nominated soon, despite a strong effort to persuade the A.B.A. to find him unacceptable...
...hundred and fifty million years ago (is this not the way James Michener would begin?), a depression that would come to be known as the Permian Basin developed in what would come to be known as West Texas. Then, to make a long story short (the demands here are somewhat more telescopic than those Big Jim labors under), there would be dinosaurs and much later there would be fossil fuels. Cow towns called Midland and Odessa would be established, their commercial cornerstones eventually to shift from cattle to the petroleum that lay beneath the desert pocked by what the Spanish...