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Kirchner's Sonata Concertante, for violin and piano, composed in 1952, came off best. He has said that "an artist must create a personal cosmos, a verdant world in continuity with tradition," and the Sonata indeed shows the stamp of this belief. Every moment of its sustains a high emotional pitch, ranging from raucous frenzy of hushed placidity. The work requires great virtuosity throughout, but these demands always have a purpose: for example, the piano provides either intricate counterpoint or a clamoring backdrop for the violin's protesting flourishes. Kirchner and Silverstein had the necessary technique, and established the rapport...
Looming up out of the verdant, time-resisting fields of rural France like a grotesque invader from outer space, the great factory hums mechanically about its business. Indifferent to the handful of humans who keep watch, a complex of electronic controls selects silica, alkali and lime from giant bins, mixes them together and feeds them into a white-hot furnace. From the furnace pours forth a river of glass 10 ft. wide, 1.7 in. thick and nearly half a mile long...
...Forest Lawn, the West Covina vigilantes were a painful affront. Forest Lawn likes to think of itself as a kind of necro-politan neighborhood improvement society. The verdant lawns and artfully sunlit edifices of the first Forest Lawn in Glendale contain, advertises Eaton, the largest collection of statuary in the U.S., as well as 200,000 "loved ones." The cemetery draws 1,000,000 tourists a year, has net assets of more than $16 million, and last year grossed - tax-exempt - $2,300,000. It has also planted two little Forest Lawns in Hollywood Hills and Cypress, Calif...
...first glance, Salazar's Africa seems a verdant paradise, for it is free of the ugly racist rules white men have installed elsewhere. In Luanda, hot, bustling capital of Angola, blacks ride the same elevators as whites in the gleaming modern office buildings, and share the same queues at post offices and bus stops. In Mozambique's busy Lourenço Marques, no one bothers to lock the door of his house or take the keys out of his parked car, and it is safe for whites to walk the darkest alleys at midnight; everywhere, the natives...
Trouble in Paradise. Few Hawaiians ever thought they would see the day when sugar planters would want-or need-to look beyond their own verdant cane fields. In the old days, sugar planters dominated Hawaii's economic, political and social life. But in the last 20 years, sugar's share of the Hawaiian gross product dropped from...