Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BOOK begins with an account not of Toscanini's youth, but of America's. As Horowitz tells it, Americans in the 19th century were at once proud of their liberation from the pretentiousness of the arts in Europe and deeply humbled by the achievements of the Europeans...
Toscanini's viscerally exciting performances, wrought with supreme tension and instrumental clarity, though sometimes sacrificing musical depth, also account for his popularity, according to Horowitz. Here Horowitz invokes the theories of Theodor Adorno, a Marxist of the Frankfurt school. Adorno, Horowitz writes, understood culture of the "bourgeois epoch"--"affirmative" and "official"--as neglecting the contradictions inherent in great art. Although proponents claimed classical would lead to universal enlightenment, "aspects of the concert hall experience were standardized, atomized, `fetishized,'" by alienated members of a "commodity society...
Some observers note that relatively few students are affected by high price-tag tuitions. Only about 80 institutions charge more than $10,000. The average private-college tuition, by contrast, is $6,150. Public colleges, which account for 80% of the nation's enrollment, average out at $1,100. Terry Hartle of the American Enterprise Institute questions whether elite colleges even have any incentive to control their prices. These schools, he points out, consistently have "more qualified applicants than places for them...
...work (Times Books; $40), points to Sternfeld's ambition for his work to be placed in the line of two other great photo essays on the national mood: Walker Evans' American Photographs (1938) and Robert Frank's The Americans (1958). More than either predecessor, however, Sternfeld's account depends on landscape and on the way Americans have fit themselves into...
...billion. By that time the addition of 15 months' worth of interest and court costs to the $8.5 billion meant that Texaco still owed $10.2 billion. Under a court order, Texaco has been paying $2.5 million a day, $104,000 an hour, $1,736 a minute into an escrow account to cover interest on the judgment...