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...Lohengrin (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor; Philips; $7.98). If records like this did not come along occasionally, one would tend to take these familiar excerpts for granted-as Herbert von Karajan obviously does in a bleary competing version on Angel. The freshness and vigor of Haitink's interpretations stem, surprisingly enough, from his scrupulously orthodox approach. He is less interested in conveying his own message than in getting his men-all of whom seem to be virtuosos-to play precisely what Wagner wrote. What they play is fortunately given some of the finest sound available on disc today...
...means the best year for an expansion-minded periodical. By January the Nixon/Ford/Arthur Burns recession had burst out full-blown and was still hanging around with lots of its old vigor in December. Even such a sound, conservative, well-connected publication as National Review ran in the red in 1975. The only successful new entrant in the periodical market was the glossy, gossipy, photo-filled People magazine, backed by Time, Inc. Money was tight...
Boris Aronson is 76, but he has obviously drunk at some fountain of creative vigor. He was born in Kiev, where at eight he wandered into an opera house and was transfixed with the beauty of a peacock painted on a stage curtain. He remained transfixed. Aronson studied set designing and in 1923 embarked on that large, frightening and decisive immigrant's gamble: the ship to New York and the land of opportunity. In 1927, he won his initial Broadway designing credit for a show called 2 x 2 = 5. It was the first of 88 sets for theater...
Singer Co. showed such vigor in sewing up new acquisitions during the 1960s that Harvard Business School used it as a case study of successful diversification. Now the 124-year-old sewing-machine firm is trying hard to recover from the financial drain caused by some of its acquisitive deals. Last week Singer President Joseph B. Flavin, who was hired away from Xerox two months ago to help end Singer's deficits (TIME, Nov. 24), got started by dumping the business-machine division. It includes data-processing equipment, electronic cash registers and calculators, and has lost about $60 million...
Rembrandts in the collection), beginning to array his whole cast of characters by the river bank, setting them down in the hooked squiggles and blots of a reed pen - pure calligraphy, astounding in its vigor. Here is Watteau, constructing with red and black chalk an exact equivalent of the shimmer of light over flesh, muslin and stiff satin that so gripped him in painting...