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...Part I were striking: the chorale and recitative beautifully mixed sole and chorus passengers. The air for baritone with trumpet obbligato was played with sensitivity to text and expression. The solo trumpet did not overwhelm the singer and played with clean attacks, soft trills, and smooth phrasing in the upward-receiving suspensions...
...White House adviser on trade in 1970-71, he created a slide show using jazzy, multicolored charts to hammer home to high officials that the U.S. share of world commerce was slipping. The presentation deeply impressed President Nixon and helped motivate the U.S. world financial offensive that culminated in upward revaluation of foreign currencies and devaluation of the dollar. Peterson is a firm supporter of Treasury Secretary George Shultz's plan to keep the world's major trading nations in rough balance with each other automatically by placing international sanctions on countries that run up persistent large foreign...
...AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISTS by Donelson F. Hoopes. 159 pages. Watson-Guptill. $25. The U.S. is currently revaluing upward much of its own past painting. In this book a young art historian discovers that Impressionism itself was not just a Parisian invention but was struggling to be born in America at the same time as in France. Hoopes tends to claim as an impressionist anybody-from Inness to Glackens-who did not paint in a strictly academic manner, but the book will introduce the fine but neglected works of such painters as John Henry Twachtman and Abbott Thayer...
...nation is just beginning to collect its wits after the last campaigns, but the pollsters, always looking onward and upward, have already zeroed in on 1976. Two days after the election Louis Harris produced a trial heat that showed Ted Kennedy running ahead of Spiro Agnew in the presidential sweepstakes 51% to 43%. The pollsters, like journalists, are just doing their job of course, but presidential campaigns are already too long. It is a bit depressing to begin them four years in advance...
...improve Poland's situation. Now he is trying to convince Poles that they must help themselves. Last week 1,700 trade union representatives gathered in Warsaw for their first congress in five years; Gierek told them that increased productivity was the only way to continue the upward trend in wages and social benefits. Because of badly organized industries, antiquated equipment and a lack of incentives, Polish workers produce only about one-third as much as their American counterparts. "The state cannot give anything to anyone," Gierek declared. "It can only distribute the goods created by work...