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...Kennedy Administration is very much pleased with the economic vigor which even France and Italy have gained from the Common Market structure. The Administration favors progressive tariff reduction and opposes compromises which would tend to dilute the EEC's strength. It even seems to agree with Hallstein's view that Britain must join the EEC unconditionally or not at all. But there is in Washington much misguided uneasiness of the former alternative...
...trip was an even greater disaster than the first. In 1947 he was invited to serve on an international committee of architects who were to design the U.N. headquarters. Setting up shop on the 21st floor of the RKO building, he threw himself into the job with his accustomed vigor; but Corbu was never a man to work with a team. From the beginning the direction of the project had been given to the more diplomatic Wallace Harrison, designer of Rockefeller Center. When the U.N. Building was finished, Corbu wrote: "A new skyscraper, which everyone calls the 'Le Corbusier...
...light, luminous sonority, when it sang Tallis's Lamentations of Jeremiah, almost seemed to dim the lights, as is the tradition when the text is sung in Holy Week Matins. Nonetheless, its complex fabric was not very apparent. In Schutz' 84th Psalm it displayed excellent control of its vigor and contrasts. The Choral Society contributed six delightfully cool and sweet songs by Schumann, the chorus maintaining an airy tone and a group of soloists spun an intricate, but occasionally ill-balanced, texture. Three choruses of Haydn ended the concert on a tender, almost sentimental note. They were, indeed, typical...
...station breaks now last 30 seconds, not long as man reckons life. But into this eyeball-probing half-minute, commercials are stuffed with a vigor that would astonish even a sausage maker. The networks give this half-minute to local stations to keep them happy and affiliated, and the stations often slice it up into 10-and 20-second blocks, and sometimes-although they are not supposed to do this-they sell it in three 10-second blocks. Sometimes the local stations will snip an additional 10 seconds off network time without permission, and sell that too. Thus...
...ecumenical movement ("We are closing our ranks"); 2) the increased activity of the laity ("In the Presbyterian Church we have approximately half a million men united for service"); 3) the liturgical revival ("Protestant ministers are now . . . introducing orderliness, dignity and beauty to their services"); 4) an upsurge in intellectual vigor ("We possess a galaxy of theologians"); 5) new approaches to evangelism ("social, intellectual, devotional and industrial...