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...emergence of Ronald Reagan as a serious contender for the Republican nomination is exhilarating. It just might suggest that America is recovering its pride and vigor. Reagan will stand tall against the internal and external enemies who have so harmed America's morale in recent years...
...Compared with its European neighbors, West Germany is enjoying an exceptionally vigorous recovery from the industrial world's worst postwar recession. Its output of goods and services is expected to rise 4.5% this year, and inflation is running at 5.2%, one of the lowest rates in any developed country. Yet, paradoxically, the very vigor of the comeback has created an increasingly worrisome problem. The rising value of the mark against other major currencies is threatening to cut into critically important export sales by putting many German goods at a price disadvantage in world markets...
German Lead. Two statistics chart the vigor of the rebound. The Common Market Commission now estimates that the output of goods and services in the nine nations of the European Community will expand by 3.5% this year, v. its decline of 2.5% in 1975. And the number of jobless workers in the Nine has fallen from a peak of 5.7 million in January to about 5.4 million...
...film. Perhaps that made the director over-confident. No attempt is made to dip beneath the surface of these men or their relationship, and, perhaps, there is nothing beneath the surface. But we never really know how much these men are driven by personal ambition, how much by moral vigor, how much by pure thrill of the chase. Do they even like each other? They never discuss the wider significance of the case or their handling of it, only tactics and never strategy. Deep Throat provides some of the comments that put events in context, but the film really tells...
Birdsall's strong soprano voice, however, partially compensates for the weakness of her acting. Musically, in fact, the entire cast of The Beggar's Opera is unimpeachable. While Ben Cox's Macheath displays more world-weariness and self-parody than vigor, he sings in a melodious high tenor that does ample justice to Gay's ballads. Toulouse too has an outstanding, well-controlled soprano--although her duets with Polly would be more effective were she a contralto...