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...premium price? Indeed these performances are, especially since they sound better than the originals. Not even Munch equaled Paray's way with Chausson's joyous heartbreaker. The concerti grossi are among the finest works of the now shamefully neglected Bloch, and Hanson reads them with snap and vigor...
...speculation last week when he announced that he would seek an un precedented sixth four-year term. Though his well-known, raspy voice was subdued and his bulky frame some 25 Ibs. lighter after his illness, his aides insist that Daley has regained a large measure of his old vigor, and relishes his job as much as ever. His peacemaking role at the Democrats' Kansas City convention two weeks ago reinforced that image...
...except in campaign promises. Yet the nation has successfully weathered its severest constitutional crisis without producing oligarchy or chaos. The three-way division of powers, which has provoked more funeral orations than Julius Caesar, still functions. If the recent election showed evidence of apathy, it also provided examples of vigor. Harvard Sociologist Thomas Pettigrew sees "serious good news" in the massive gains that blacks made in Congress and state legislatures. Connecticut's Ella Grasso, the first woman to become Governor without benefit of her husband's coattails, is a symbol of the growing numbers of women who seek...
...policies pursued by the present Administration and the one that preceded it." On the other hand, Theodore H. White, author of The Making of the President series, argued: "The pattern of the '60s, which was interrupted by the Nixon White House, seems to have reasserted itself with vigor. The Democratic Party may have resumed its movement. It will take four or five years to see whether it's real or only apparent." It was evident, however, that the Democrats can keep up that momentum only if they make effective use in the next two years of their new strength...
...great was the improvement in the string section that it really shouldn't be compared with last year's. Intonation suffered somewhat in the second movement, but the orchestra more than redeemed itself in the third movement fugue, when the theme repeatedly sprang forth in new form and vigor...