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...shaped, proving more than ever that while Gould's Bach is invariably different from anybody else's, it invariably has its own kind of rightness. Then there are Mozart's first five piano sonatas, which he spins out in enthusiastic, masculine, superclassical style. This performance helps offset Gould's hyperbolical habit of denouncing Mozart in interviews ("Anyone who has to write 28 symphonies before he can write a good one can't be much of a musician...
...good faith, taste, and intelligence in which those words are delivered to an audience. There are some nits abroad in the production, and it will be necessary to pick a few of them here. But no litany of unfortunate incidental, especially the brief one this staging provokes, can offset the qualities of honesty and judgment which mark both direction and performances, nor the pleasure which those qualities should be providing Cambridge audiences in the next two weeks...
Chief beneficiary of the new bloom is likely to be France, which ships more than 20% of its exports to West Germany. After matching its leading customer in economic cutbacks, France found itself with unemployment at a record Gaullist high of 450,000. To offset this, the government plans to inject $600 million into the economy during the year, while continuing to boost exports. Now that West Germany is back on its feet, the export business promises to brighten the French employment picture as the country's economy moves closer to the 5% growth rate it has been reaching...
...influence on the government would be neutralized. Into Spychalski's place as Defense Minister, Gomulka managed to put another supporter. He was Wojciech Jaruzelski, 44, the Deputy Defense Minister and Chief of the General Staff. Aware of the factional struggle, Jaruzelski immediately appointed three new vice ministers to offset the anti-Gomulka cast of the remaining vice ministers in office...
...White, following the practice of Chicago and Los Angeles, set up a rumor-control center in his office where TV newsmen checked their facts with the mayor and his aides, who manned telephones linked to the police department and storefront command posts in the Roxbury ghetto. In Washington to offset the impression given by smoke-shrouded aerial photos that the capital was an inferno, WTOP televised a wall-size map showing that the fires were confined to a relatively small area. When Baltimore Comptroller Hyman Pressman made a heated speech demanding that the looting be stopped "by gunfire" if necessary...