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...mentality of the players, has fostered a grudging, clock-watching approach to rehearsing and performing, he says; jet-age music directors have left their orchestras in an artistic lurch while pursuing second and third careers elsewhere; managements and boards of trustees have run the show with the box office uppermost in their minds. "Out of sheer ignorance or arrogance, many boards have time and again made lamentable decisions," argues Schuller. "We should have obligatory training courses for prospective trustees...
Ultimately, the question of Israel's long-term security remains uppermost in the mind of American Jewry, and for that reason Begin faces no pressure from his U.S. supporters to deal with the P.L.O. As long as the Begin government appears faithful to that criterion, its mistakes and shortcomings will probably be excused. But there could well be further erosion of American Jewish support if that government continues to pursue policies judged detrimental to the peace process and to Israel's international credibility...
...question uppermost in the minds of many on the Faculty Council of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) is, "Why Arnold Harberger...
...list of her possible successors includes Under Secretary Luther Hodges Jr., son of Kennedy's Commerce Secretary, and Anthony Solomon, the Treasury Department's Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs. Both have the qualifications believed to be uppermost in Carter's mind: expertise in economics and the ability to work well with American businessmen, which Kreps did with grace and considerable skill...
...really sudden explosions of faith. Dead religions do not produce them." And, "Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect." Love receives a whole chapter. "When the coin is tossed, either Love or Lust will fall uppermost. But if the metal is right, under the one will always lie the other." The attachment of marriage is "a stream that, after a certain length of time, sinks into the earth and flows underground. Something is there, but one does not know what. Only the vegetation shows that there...