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Caramanlis also has some serious economic matters to handle. He is expected to start stiff fiscal restrictions to halt Greece's spiraling inflation, now running at 30%, the highest rate in Europe. During his campaign, Caramanlis warned that such measures will mean "pain and sacrifices from all Greeks and mostly from the well-to-do classes." He added that one of Athens' principal aims will be to make Greece a full partner in the Common Market. In addition, he said, such a move would "save us from the need of seeking special patrons," namely...
...most relaxed. As usual, the temperature in the house was set for 74°. As usual, the recital was scheduled for 4 o'clock in the afternoon ("I hate to wait a whole day for the concert to come," he explains). Horowitz has been known to be stiff early in a recital. "In the beginning, the fingers are cold. Warm water doesn't work. I have to warm up from inside." His crisp, classically elegant way with the opening work, the Sonata in F-Sharp Minor by Muzio Clementi, a contemporary of Beethoven's, made it clear...
Incumbent Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz held off a surprisingly stiff challenge from Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams, winning a fifth term in Albany...
Despite Davidson's optimism, an embarrassing question remains: What happened to a league that kicked off four months ago with solid attendance figures, some exciting play, and promised to cause a mass defection of N.F.L. superstars next year? The answer: bungling management and stiff competition from the N.F.L. once it started regular-season play in September...
...Constable is absurd. It also distorts the actual nature of his achievement. English romanticism always had an intensely realistic strain; its ecstasies of involvement with nature came from a meticulous observation of growth and form. This rarely happens with Friedrich, whose work (see color opposite) often had the peculiarly stiff and abstract character of a landscape assembled from prototypes. There is, for example, no way of reading Traveler Looking over the Sea of Fog (circa 1818) as a real scene; with his wind-blown hair and green velvet suit, Friedrich's Byronic wanderer is as incongruous on his craggy...