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...skeptics, including the Communists and some Christian Democrats, a Socialist-led government promised to be little more than a passing novelty. They saw no reason to believe that Craxi, for all his reformist zeal, could be more successful than his dozens of predecessors who fell victims to Parliament's inexhaustible talent for fomenting political instability. There were optimistic politicians, though, who saw grounds for hope in the electorate's demonstrated distaste in the June elections for the major parties' malgoverno (bad government). In their view, Craxi has an opportunity to bring a durable change to the pattern...
...When explaining their country's fervent embrace of classical music, the Japanese almost never cite the qualities that have kept it flourishing in the West: beauty, emotional appeal, elegance. Instead, they speak of concert music almost as a commodity, whose import and manufacture they have undertaken with characteristic zeal. "We have adopted the Western style in our social life," explains Kazuyuki Toyama, a leading Tokyo music critic. "We wear Western clothes, not kimonos; we watch baseball. So do we respect Western culture, and reflect it in our daily life...
...gentlemanly survey of Europe's palaces, fleshpots and spas. Oldfashioned, with an unabashed dollop of modest sexism (the text refers to Fielding's wife as "my Nancy"), it is written in a style once aptly described as "Rotarian baroque" and infused with a crusader's zeal. Occasionally, there is a pawky sense of humor at work: of Claridge's hotel in London, Fielding observes, "Finding space will be the problem, since it is inhabited by client legacies that go back to the time of the Picts." Designed for a vanishing clientele-the affluent, ignorant American-Fielding...
...House." Republicans tried to force the House into establishing a special committee to pursue the matter of the doctored transcripts in public hearings. But on a largely party-line vote last week, the Democrats succeeded in having the matter referred to the Ethics Committee, not known for its investigative zeal, and there the matter will proceed in private. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin accused Democrats of "stonewalling any effort to get to the bottom of this matter." He was among seven G.O.P. members who wrote to Attorney General William French Smith asking for a criminal investigation or a civil action...
Before the vote, Democrats, with partisan zeal, flogged the equity issue. Exclaimed Democrat Alan Cranston of California, who is running for President: "The President says that poor people must sacrifice. But what happens when Democrats say it's time for the rich to sacrifice? The President cries, 'Foul!' " Grumbled House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "It may have been a victory for the President, but it was a defeat for fairness." Senate Republican leaders delayed the vote to enable Reagan, at his televised press conference on Tuesday, to make the G.O.P. pitch. Insisting that the Senate preserve...