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Soon the lines begin to intersect and merge until they form broad and turgid rivers of money and authority, sometimes augmented and rechanneled by state agencies. In a nearly futile attempt to keep the lines distinguishable on the chart, they are rendered in eight varieties-including dots, diagonals, dashes, and dashes and dots. At the bottom, where the confusion is such that arrows are necessary to direct traffic, await the beneficiaries of the programs voted by Congress. They are divided into a mind-boggling 59 categories: Residents of Rat Infested Areas of Selected Cities, Residents of Critical Health Manpower Shortage...
...occasion piece. Wagner accepted, perhaps because he was going broke mounting the first Ring cycle. He also hoped "soon to be assured of the American visitors" at Bayreuth. The American festivities opened in Philadelphia, May 10, 1876, with the composer's Centennial March. The work, a turgid blend of bathos and pomposity, turned out to be one of Wagner's very worst...
Power Base. Etzioni's main theoretical effort and "life's work" is The Active Society, a long and turgid treatise on how to use the levers of social change. In it, Etzioni explains how social progress requires consensus and a power base to protect and promote change. Thus he considered Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty a doomed effort from the start because it gave the poor authority without a power base. He also opposes school busing as a means of integration because no consensus for it exists. "If you want it, fine-go out and convince...
...significantly lower than in the first half of the year." Earlier, Administration forecasts had living costs rising at 7% later this year, though most non-Government economists expect them to be higher. Stein's designated successor, Alan Greenspan, expects a high level of inflation this year-and turgid or almost imperceptible growth in the economy next year...
Hardly a man to make Panglossian predictions, Greenspan foresees an 8% inflation rate in the fourth quarter and "turgid" industrial growth and slimmer profit margins in 1975. In order to begin moving toward stabilizing the economy by 1976, he says, decisions for doing so must be made now. To help make those decisions, Greenspan is willing to take his quarter-of-a-million-dollar pay cut. "We are at a major crossroad," he says. "The actions taken in the next year or two will have a significant impact on where...