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But he enjoys one element of the race. "The fun of the campaign," he insists, "is to actually say to someone, 'Look, I really believe we could restore a 5% prime rate.' " He gasps, as if to fill in the listener's incredulous response. "Now, someone is going to say...
Hearsay can bring psychic benefits to speaker and listener alike. A case in point is the false teacup story about President Nixon, which Kapferer says was spread by the official Chinese press. Instead of challenging the President, so the story goes, authorities arranged to have a performing magician pull the...
To the contemporary listener, the mystique seems hard to fathom. The core of Toscanini's repertoire was small -- Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner made up 40% of his New York Philharmonic programs; Puccini and Verdi were favorites in the opera house -- and his interest in contemporary music, aside from fellow Italians...
He seemed pretty cool, if not very imaginative, and we used to hand out a lot of at the apartment and shoot the bull. I told him about some of my philosophies--he was a great listener--and encouraged him to try to break free from the mold. To demonstrate...
Composed between 1946 and 1948, the Turangalila-Symphonie is a ten-movement, 80-minute showpiece for large orchestra, elemental in its power, yet seductive in its radiant beauty. The title derives from Sanskrit and roughly connotes "vitality" and "life," and thus gives some indication of both the piece's formidable...