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...DIED. RAY CONNIFF, 85, composer and bandleader whose breezy arrangements of popular hits such as Besame Mucho and Just Walkin' in the Rain epitomized the lounge sound of the 1950s and 60s; in Los Angeles. Despite their poor critical re-ception, Conniff's recordings have sold 70 million copies and become the sonic staple in elevators and supermarkets worldwide...
...melodies and harmonies. Instead it is made up of bursts of tones that are combined into seemingly cacophonous passages, which tax both the ear and the mind. It can sound dense and abstruse at first acquaintance, yet, like the notion that Boulez is unfeeling, this too is a misper- ception. Forbidding though his music undeniably can be, it amply repays careful, open-minded listening, gradually revealing its sweep and surge...
Politics in Japan has traditionally been a sport for the upper classes, those proper conservatives who went to the elite schools and enjoyed the right connections. Premier Kakuei Tanaka, 56, son of an indigent horse trader and a self-made millionaire, was a striking ex ception. Boasting nicknames like "the Computerized Bulldozer," he swept into the premiership 28 months ago with promises of "decision and action" and an expansion of trade with China. Last week he proved to be a victim of his own hard-driving success...
...nature of radicalism not to be able to live at peace with the past. History does not prove very comforting to those who yearn for Utopian change. That is one reason, no doubt, why the revisionists - with the ex ception of Moore - have not written works equal to the best of the consensus school. It seems to be true that conservatives - men with a fondness for the past - write the better history; witness Gibbon, Spengler, Henry Adams. The revisionists have a valid point: If the past is not usable, then what is its value...
...professionals have fared no better. George Miller, senior vice president of the San Francisco firm that manages the $544 million Commonwealth Group of Mutual Funds, encourages his analysts to invest with their own cash. "Virtually without ex ception, they are losing money now," he reports. Dr. Shannon Pratt, director of the Portland (Ore.) State University Investment Analysis Center, estimates that the value of his own stocks has dropped 23% since May-a period during which the Dow-Jones industrial average has gone down 15%. He invests largely in over-the-counter stocks, which rose faster than most listed shares during...