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...SICKNESS OF SOCIETY can be measured by the corruption of its words. If what is written is commercially compromised, pedestrian, pretentiously avant-garde, sensational, falsely "objective," full of prurient excitements, or given to half-truths in its ambitious and professional urge to suit popular taste, then the vigor and sanity of a people's intellectual life is indicted. No man or woman, still less a nation of millions, can escape the revealing honesty of personal utterance. So America, a land more than any other of printed words and raised voices, speaks a persistent, accusing dialogue with itself at every newsstand...
Audubon Society President Elvis J. Stahr. With the figures the volunteers provide, ornithologists are able not only to check the health and vigor of different avian species but also to detect changes in their habitats, set up wildlife sanctuaries and even help airlines reroute their planes to avoid dangerous collisions with migrating birds. The bird count also acts as an environmental early-warning system. Recalling the canaries that miners took with them into coal mines to detect noxious fumes, Stahr explains that birds are usually quicker than man to react to changes about them. One example: the decline of many...
...production of goods and services, discounted for inflation, rose at an annual rate of only 4.4%. To a country used to much more rapid growth, that has been a shock. Japanese business firms are failing at the high rate of 1,500 a month, and unemployment, for all the vigor of the export industry, has edged up to 2.1% of the work force. In almost any other country, that would be considered low -but Japanese workers have been accustomed to guaranteed lifetime employment in the companies they joined fresh out of high school. Fukuda has announced two programs of higher...
Price is perhaps on safer ground when he insists that once the chase had started, both Nixon's political opponents and the press went after the embattled president with a special "anti-Nixon" vigor. He argues that in a less hysterical national environment, the final "smoking gun" of August, 1974--the revelation that Nixon had been aware of former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell's probable involvement in Watergate from the start, and had ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to head off the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation of the break-in for political reasons--would not have been considered...
...three dance movements that followed were less satisfactory. There was still vigor and clarity (the lacy harpsichord was an especially fine touch), but Wilkins never permitted the orchestra to flaunt the music's bravura potential. Unfortunately, his thoughtful, courteous reading blunted the brilliance, the hard edges, of a work which should above all be diamond-hard and sparkling...