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...hard to say what makes an audience respond to a reading. Some of the most success works were the rather dramatic ones--often a brief introduction explaining the situation helped. Kunitz, especially, came off best in poems like "The Dragonfly," "The War Against the Trees," or "The Thief," in which an easily-explained situation gave listeners something to hold...
...influence of large organizations, such as universities and industrial and governmental laboratories, on the creativity of individuals and groups. The conferences, with a view toward increasing scientific creativity in America, will measure the extent of significant discoveries in their various fields and settings, and try to identify reasons for success and failure...
...about inflation. But I think they have changed their minds." Ike's sidelong glance at one of the darkest moments of his Administration betrayed not at all the fact that White House staffers are wearing earsplitting grins behind closed doors, marveling at the too-good-to-last Administration success with the Democratic 86th Congress. Not only had the balanced budget carried the day, but in the U.S. Senate, spawning ground for 1960 Democratic presidential hopefuls. Democrats were fighting Democrats with increasing ferocity...
...cannot, of course, quibble with Dyer-Bennet's success at mastering his craft. For an age that thrives on contrived noise misnamed music, he insists--successfully--on preserving the integrity of the music he sings and plays...
Speaking of such mundane things as tax deductions is one way not to describe the success of our next subject: The Maurice Wertheim Bequest and Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman--on view at the Fogg Museum of Art through July. For contrary to the current rules of today's heavy buying in the art works of the 19th and 20th centuries, these large and very impressive collections have been built up more through an everlasting appreciation of art than an annual fear of Uncle's long-armed tax collectors...