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...Human Concerns." At home the Pres ident underlined his own concept of himself as a conservative in fiscal matters, a liberal in human affairs. "I expect the budget to be in balance during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956," he said. "I shall propose a balanced budget for the next fiscal year ending June 30, 1957 ... I earnestly believe that a tax cut can be deemed justifiable only when it will not unbalance the budget, a budget which makes provision for some reduction, even though modest, in our national debt...
...years as president of the National Broadcasting Co., eupeptic Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver made the newspapers almost as often as NBC's program timetables. He pushed the so-called "magazine concept" of selling TV ad time to several sponsors per show, popularized the hour-and-a-half "spectacular" program, thought up NBC's Wide, Wide World and long-winded Monitor. But all this was not entirely to the liking of David Sarnoff, 64, board chairman of NBC's parent company, Radio Corp. of America. Madison Avenue gossiped that Pat Weaver was getting too much personal publicity...
Beethoven's 'Archduke' Trio (1811), for violin, 'cello and piano, was the last great achievement of his middle period. It is almost symphonic in concept, and at times bursts the limits of the medium, as Beethoven was to do still more in his last period with such works as the Hammerklavier Sonata, the Grosse Fuge and the Missa Solemnis. The Trio posed for the composer a problem of balance between piano and strings. Beethoven's keyboard part is full of massive chords and rich arpeggios; to help compensate for this the string parts contain many double notes. The result...
Physics instructors find, moreover, that the teaching of important concepts from a mathematical point of view is insufficient for their purposes, the report said. Consequently, the material must be repeated, not only once, but in every course using the concept. Instruction in vector analysis may be repeated in as many as five courses, students reported...
Analyst Ostow was not fazed by the fact that Freud's concept of a death instinct has proved difficult to accept. On it, he based his campaign to make the world safe for Eros. "It is the death instinct that is responsible for murder, wars, suicide and destructiveness," said he. While Eros fights and ultimately controls Thanatos, modern warfare could destroy most of the world's population and culture before Eros has time even to warm up. "If we are sure that psychoanalysis can attenuate the potential of death instinct - and I believe it can - then...