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...energy, Kennedy originally opposed ending Government regulation of crude oil prices, calling decontrol "the worst form of rationing because it is rationing by price." Nowadays, however, he seems resigned to Carter's decision to abolish price controls. Kennedy is also skeptical of Carter's synthetic-fuels program. The Senator favors encouraging conservation, and he has proposed making available $34 billion in grants and loans to homeowners and industry for energy-saving projects...
Compared with Webern, his fellow revolutionaries Schoenberg and Berg were vestigial romantics. They used Schoenberg's twelve-tone system to rework the old, large-scale forms of Wagner and Brahms. Webern used it to abolish those forms, along with the entire principle of elaboration and climax. He let his three-or four-note motives suggest their own, rather static structural implications through intricate counterpoint and variation-not development. ''Once stated,'' he said, ''the theme expresses all it has to say.'' By relating everything else to that theme, he attempted to achieve...
...national health insurance plan, he claimed that it would cost an additional $28.6 billion a year, while his critics contended that the price tag would be closer to $45 billion. Kennedy also favored eliminating what he calls "tax expenditures"; that is, tax breaks for various groups. He would abolish deductions for such business expenses as first-class airfare...
...Core poses a more interesting problem. The philosophical contradiction between the Core and Advanced Standing was first pointed out to CUE by student members of ERG. The only ways to achieve logical consistency are to abolish the Sophomore Standing Program entirely or to accept the concept (proposed by a CUE faculty member) of a one-to-one credit system between A.P. and Harvard courses. Neither change is likely to be adopted soon...
...Abolish the corporate income tax. Force regulators to stick to a budget. Drive up gasoline prices to $3 per gal. Replace the personal income tax with a tax on only "expenditures." The new generation of innovative economists has a bold diversity of ideas-and ideologies. Some of them still applaud Keynes, at least with one hand, but others turn thumbs down. All agree, however, that Government often compounds the economic dilemma and that the nation needs more individual incentives. A sampling...