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...Representative home on recess, Bob Kerr had tested political currents and come away with a spine-tingling shock. Around the nation at all levels people were hellbent on economy-and on not much congressional action beyond that. One senior Senator summed up his constituents' advice in seven succinct words: "Cut that budget and come on home...
...heyday, Venice pioneered the income tax, statistical science, the floating of government stock, state censorship of books, the gambling casino, and the ghetto (though no Renaissance power was less overtly anti-Semitic). Many of these reflect what Author McCarthy regards as the persistent Venetian style and temperament-dry, succinct, tough-minded. In the 18th century, the last of the doges, handing the ducal cap to an attendant, remarked matter-of-factly, "I won't be needing this any more." Venice can boast no profound thinkers, no religious martyrs, no native-born legendary lovers. Of the world, worldly, it pursued...
There are few operas more consistently delightful than The Barber of Seville. Fashioned from Beaumarchais' sprightly comedy of aristocratic highjinks, the libretto is succinct and funny. Rossini's music fits perfectly, being gay, tuneful, and happily short-winded...
...spot, Ike and his questioners aimed at women across the nation. The questions were routine-what about the draft, the cost of living, the chance of another depression? But Ike caught the spirit of the occasion, with easy grace enjoyed a 29-minute parlor chat, gave the ladies some succinct answers for housewives to ponder; e.g., "All of the economic factors . . . point toward a continuation of good times." And though the cost of living had edged up in 3½ years, "you ladies are buying a lot of built-in maid service with your [prepared and frozen] food these days...
...levees, and such young idolaters as Joe ("King") Oliver and Sidney Bechet were soon to hammer out the rudiments of instrumental jazz. Washington jazz tended to strings-pianos, banjos, violins-but it had the same ancestry: the sophisticated rhythms of African drums, which later took on a more succinct and sensuous character as they drifted through the Caribbean islands, gradually infiltrated the U.S. via New Orleans and the East Coast. The East Coast variety, with its own flavors added, eventually became the ragtime of Duke's childhood...