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...Steel's small but still significant retreat came one week after its announcement of price increases ranging as high as 8% on some basic steel products. Much as he did when General Motors sprang some hefty car price increases on his brand-new Administration last August, President Ford issued a statement that he was "very disappointed" at the news and doubtful that the price hikes were justified. As it happened, the Wage and Price Council had already taken it upon itself to fire off a telegram to U.S. Steel's New York headquarters asking the company to explain...
...Athena sprang full-grown from the brow of Zeus, much of 20th century drama sprang from the mind of Luigi Pirandello. His plays are intellectual position papers outlining the dominant themes of dramatists to come-alienation, absurdity, metaphysical paradox, and an almost eerie psychological portraiture. Since The Rules of the Game is an early Pirandello play, dating from 1919, these themes appear in relatively embryonic form. In some ways, Rules most nearly resembles the young Pirandello's naturalistic short stories, set against the backdrop of his birthplace, Sicily. Like them, it evolves along what might be called Mafia lines...
...just Watergate, there would not have been the same outcome. But at some level of consciousness, the people put the two together. The result was clear-cut anger and blame. They zeroed in on the Nixon-related Republicans, not conservative Democrats or liberal Republicans." In large measure, the reaction sprang from the electorate's strong trend toward populism and moral indignation, as limned in TIME Soundings, the quarterly survey conducted by Yankelovich's firm (TIME...
...sweet, and Dylan never was much good for doing the boogaloo to, but the Stones celebrated the physical side of our natures, which in most cases had been long buried. (It is a sign of the abysmal racism of both the counterculture and the parent culture from which it sprang that the Stones--like Elvis, a decade earlier--became vastly popular by doing unpolished, and frequently inferior, imitations of black songs that the same audiences had steadfastly ignored for years...
...orchestra's spontaneous response to it. So great was the improvement in the string section that it really shouldn't be compared with last year's. Intonation suffered somewhat in the second movement, but the orchestra more than redeemed itself in the third movement fugue, when the theme repeatedly sprang forth in new form and vigor...