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...effect and a wizardly painter of tone color. But Strauss was the last man in a 400-year-old tradition of tonality, and it was his misfortune to work alongside the atonalists without sharing any of their discoveries. Halfway into the present century, he was widely dismissed as a souvenir of the last...
...musician in jazz, but his rococo style never obscures his musical intent: to force the birth of a mood, however painful, whenever he plays. Here, in eight tunes recorded nearly two years ago, Evans swings with an energy he has recently lost, and the album that results is a souvenir of better days...
...have been affected by one persistent problem: the U.S. balance of payments deficit. To fight it, the Federal Reserve Board raised interest rates, the Administration pleaded for stable wages, Congress toughened the tax treatment of businessmen's foreign earnings and obliged tourists to cut back on their overseas souvenir buying. Last week the first estimates for 1964 heightened Washington's confidence that the U.S. at long last may be closing its bothersome and embarrassing deficit. Preliminary figures show that the deficit, which was $527 million in 1963's fourth quarter, declined in 1964's opening quarter...
Superannuated Souvenir. "Masses of the faithful have been lost," said Dopfner, because to many the Catholic Church appeared as "an institution that enslaved freedom" and as a "superannuated souvenir from a past age." It spoke to man in an ancient tongue, through incomprehensible rituals, in preaching concepts that have no relation to current life. Instead of penetrating the world, the church seemed to sit "in a self-imposed ghetto, trying to build its own small world adjoining the big world." Tied to "antiquated forms," Catholicism often gave the appearance of resenting the inescapable presence of ideological pluralism, political democracy...
...first days of Christmas, Lyndon Johnson gave reporters: 60 souvenir ashtrays, 26 colorful relatives, four private chats, umpteen salty quotes, three guided tours, and an ensign...