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...difficulty to perform. Happily, though, David Sogg is an extraordinarily gifted musician. His tone is clear and pure, his technique marvelous. Few regard the bassoon as an exceptionally agile instrument, but Sogg demonstrated that it can be precisely that. The rapid passagework and the herioc leaps between the uppermost and lowermost registers were rendered with astounding lucidity. More importantly, his fine sense for the subtle lyricism of Mozart was obvious, especially in the second movement, and throughout the piece he allowed the music to express itself with such subtlety that it did not sound stale or trite. In short...
...page report given to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance admits that the Soviets have taken full advantage of loopholes in the old treaty and operated at its uppermost limits. Nonetheless, the report concludes that Moscow has not committed any clear-cut violations of SALT...
...problems that were worrying Jimmy Carter last week are by no means uppermost in the minds of most Americans In state after state, members of Congress who returned home for the August recess found voters preoccupied by personal, local concerns rather than headline-grabbing, life-and-death issues. Occasional gusts of passion were stirred over the Panama Canal treaty and the economy, but voters mentioned the President only rarely and Bert Lance hardly at all. TIME correspondents joined five members of Congress on their recess rounds. Their reports...
Saying which candidate you think won the debate isn't the same thing as saying you favor him for President. Mostly, commentators evaded the question uppermost in viewers' minds and went on discussing how evasive the candidates had been...
Even though the candidates were concerned with scoring debating points, last week's confrontation at least gave the broad outline of an answer to the question that was uppermost in most viewers' minds: How would a Carter Administration's foreign policy differ from Ford's? The answer seemed to be that, aside from some changes in nuance and emphasis-for example, Carter would probably give a higher priority to strengthening relations with traditional allies-U.S. foreign policy would be basically unchanged. Such crucial factors as judgment, temper, coolness under pressure could, of course, only...