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...Strauss, former head of the Democratic National Committee, was the guest last week for the 2,000th Sperling Breakfast, a capital institution of high cholesterol and high-powered talk. He sat down, eyed his journalistic adversaries and said, "You're being a little harsh, more than a little harsh, on the presidential candidates. They've been described as midgets, pygmies and nobodies. That is not right...
...nothing could embarrass this most majestic of bridges, built in treacherous waters at a cost of only eleven lives. More would have been killed had not Joseph B. Strauss, the engineer who conceived and built the bridge, insisted that nets be strung under the workmen; the nets saved 19. Strauss said it best at the dedication, in an age when wonders were built to stay wondrous: "This bridge needs neither praise, eulogy nor encomium. It speaks for itself...
...mass of political Silly Putty. Of the seven, only Jesse Jackson has an established national reputation -- yet he has virtually no chance of winning. Current party practice bars informal tests of strength. "There is no mountain to climb, no way for one of them to show off," says Bob Strauss, the former Democratic chairman who reigns as party sage. Says John White, another chairman emeritus: "The campaign goes back to ground zero." Polls taken last week, just after Hart's final agony became public, demonstrated why some skeptics call the active contenders the Seven Dwarfs. In Iowa the Des Moines...
Johannes Brahms deserves special mention as a Romantic who continued the symphonic tradition of Beethoven. Other Romantic symphonists include Bruckner and Mahler, who both wrote works of great beauty and very great length. Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner are other well-known composers of about the same time period...
...Farrar, Strauss and Giroux...