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...some of his work is too crude to observe anything but the most superficial aspects of his subjects; yet he does well enough with J. P. Marquand. "Outside my window the river lay opalescent in the twilight, but for a moment I saw it as a dark and relentless torrent bearing me on into the unknowable future, and I shuddered," is not remarkable for its wit, but the next sentence--"I didn't want to get married; I just wanted to go back to Harvard"--excuses the rest. I like the ending especially: "Things often work out a lot better...
...ranks high among the earth's mightiest rivers. Each year it discharges into the Pacific enough water to cover the entire state of Texas a foot deep. But the flow is uneven: in the spring, swelled by the melted snows of the Rockies, the Columbia becomes a fierce torrent, sometimes overflowing its banks and causing costly flood damage...
...lonely man with no real personal friends. Maybe a short rest will do him good." Prime Minister Ben-Gurion had enough zeal left last week to take on another opponent. Rising to address the 25th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, he poured out a 100-minute torrent of poetic and apocalyptic Hebrew. Despite the Zionists' impressive efforts in helping create Israel twelve years ago and the nearly $500 million they-and other Jews abroad -have pumped into it since, Ben-Gurion belabored them as cowards and false friends. He described Zionism as "the scaffolding needed to build the state...
...state. They have taken to one business practice that has been on the wane in the U.S.: the office Christmas party. The Japanese, who learned the tradition from American occupation forces, call them bohnenkai (forget-the-year parties), and they work diligently at drowning the past in a torrent of alcohol during two weeks of nightly Christmastime revelry with geishas, models and strippers...
...after intermission, with the playing of the final Sonata Opus 111, that Mr. Fischer really electrified the audience. His playing was percussive in the opening torrent of notes; he moved effectively from lyric to appassionato passages; his fingers flew over the keyboard in the long runs and octave passages. I was rather disappointed that he skipped the repeat of the first section, but one cannot expect everything; the remainder of his playing was more than satisfying. It is not easy to play the first section of Opus 111 at all, let alone well, and Mr. Fischer's excellent technique...