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DIED. William H. Stein, 68, American biochemist who shared a 1972 Nobel Prize with a Rockefeller University colleague, Stanford Moore, for unraveling the chemical composition of ribonuclease, an enzyme that, with 124 amino acid components, was twice as complex as any previously analyzed protein; of polyneuritis, a polio-like disease that had crippled him since 1969; in New York City...
...bullish answers, but mostly they boiled down to a growing feeling among investors that the nation's psychological funk has bottomed out and that under the spur of events in Iran and Afghanistan, a sense of direction and purpose is finally beginning to emanate from Washington. Says Howard Stein, chairman of the Dreyfus Fund, a leading mutual fund investment firm: "There is always a psychological lift from a crisis, and people rise to the occasion." Harold Ehrlich, chairman of the Bernstein-Macaulay investment advisory service, cites a spreading conviction that "the country is moving again, and that means more...
...least analytic of musicians, Rubin stein is unilluminating about his technique and repertory. "Compositions," he says, "were immediately clear to me through my born musical instinct. The music simply spoke to me." What it told him, he has already conveyed in his extraordinary performances and recordings; he has little to add here. He is better on his fellow musicians, particularly those whom he does not wholly admire. He proudly plays his new recording of the Grieg concerto for the sardonic Rachma ninoff, whose sole comment is "Piano out of tune." Jascha Heifetz patronizes him musically but seeks his advice...
...also puzzled and frustrated. People feel injured in their national pride and yearn for tougher action. But they are not ready for war, and are unable to figure out what nonmilitary actions might impel the Soviets to pull out of Afghanistan or the Iranians to free the hostages. Kenneth Stein, an assistant professor of Middle Eastern history at Emory University, describes the feeling as "a sense of impotence and frustration...
Rotten writing is scarcely a new problem. Napoleon's script was so miserable that one of his generals once mistook a letter of his for battle orders. Charles Hamilton, a Manhattan dealer in autographs and manuscripts, contends that Writer Gertrude Stein's oblique prose style may be explained by the fact that compositors often misread her cryptic script. Poet William Butler Yeats often could not read his own work. Horace Greeley, the editor of the old New York Tribune, had a notoriously illegible scrawl. He once scribbled a note to a reporter telling him he was fired...