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Jimmy Carter's budget comes during a particularly troublesome economic period. The often ballyhooed mild recession that was supposed to slow price rises looks increasingly illusive. Some economists, including Harvard's Otto Eckstein and Washington Consultant Michael Evans, have withdrawn earlier firm predictions of recession and say that the economy may not decline this year. The Administration still forecasts a modest 1% drop in growth. Some indicators are surprisingly robust. Despite record high mortgage rates, housing is stronger than was expected. Says Kyle McMullin, a homebuilder in Bountiful, Utah: "People are getting used to the idea...
...Because most of the roles are servants and soldiers--certainly 60 per cent of the roles--a lot of it is just standing on stage for 25 minutes or a half hour without moving. Because servants or soldiers tend to be rather stiff and withdrawn, standing still is crucially important. And half an hour is long. In the last scene of [Wagner's] Lohengrin we had to stand with an 18-foot pike for half an hour, supposedly not moving--in full armor! It was boiling hot because they make the costumes look real--they don't make them...
Obsessed with research and the grantsmanship necessary to fund it, scientists have effectively withdrawn into their laboratories, computer rooms, and think tanks. Doing largely their own thing, they specialize these days to an anomalously high degree. Sure, some scientists are crossing boundaries as research necessarily becomes more interdisciplinary, but few of them are willing to generalize, to construct but few of them are willing to generalize, to construct the big picture. It seems that the grand synthesizers have become virtually extinct...
...Although the University refused to make its intentions clear, present evidence indicates that Harvard University is not proceeding with conversion of these units into offices, and the Tenants Committee has therefore withdrawn its complaint," the letter states...
Whether witting or withdrawn, like savings, from some secret zinc-lined stockpile, the honesty of the performance and of the music was armor piercing. "The Who sound came from us playing as a three-piece band and trying to sound like more," Entwistle told TIME's Janice Castro. "I play standard bass, but I combine it with long runs where I take over the lead while Pete bashes out chords." Townshends guitar style?a sort of flywheel progression from rhythmic chords to melody and back again, all performed with whirling arms, splits, slides and high jumps?attracted as much attention...