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...short time, Berlin felt himself mined out. But an invitation from Moss Hart to collaborate on Face the Music in 1932 opened a rich new vein of melody. Depression America fought off the gathering gloom with the cheery bounce of Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee. For the first-act finale of As Thousands Cheer (1933), he dusted off an old clinker called Smile and Show Your Dimple, put a new bonnet on it and called it Easter Parade. Two years later, it was on to Hollywood, where Berlin wrote many of the tunes that sent % Fred Astaire...
...retired two years ago as Herman Miller's chief executive officer, is hardly a soft touch. At performance reviews, he regularly grilled top managers on such soul-searing topics as "Who are you?," "What have you abandoned?" and "What should grace enable us to be?" In a similar vein, De Pree provides a list of telltale signs that a company is in trouble. Among them: a proliferation of manuals, the disappearance of "tribal stories" that preserve a firm's traditions, and a "dark tension among key people...
...much remembering. In Funes, the Memorious, Jorge Luis Borges tells the story of a man who suddenly gains the ability to remember every iota of information he has ever apprehended. Every vein of every leaf of every tree, every formation of every cloud in every sky at every instant of his life he sees. An avalanche of knowing renders him inaccessible, mystical and finally defeated. Funes dies young. No mind can apprehend God's work, or man's, in all its detail and survive. Forgetting, for men as for nations, is a biological necessity, like sleep, a respite from consciousness...
Throughout the fall campaign, Bush swore that he would be the "education President," yet his current budget, in fact, calls for a reduction in education spending. In a similar vein, Bush has repeatedly proclaimed a greater sensitivity to the needs of our environment than his predecessor held, but still showed remarkable passivity in the face of the Alaskan oil spill, seeming reluctant to confront one of the nation's major oil companies...
Since television has tended to define the South Africa story in terms of violent conflict, South Africa Now tries to offer a broader perspective. The show routinely taps the antiapartheid vein that runs through the work of such South African artists as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba and the country's hot multiracial band Savuka. Its more reportorial pieces have documented the detention and alleged torture of black children, analyzed the causes of black- on-black violence, aired footage of the war in Angola and exposed the activities of the White Wolves, a right-wing terrorist group. Critics charge that...