Word: allen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...James Allen Johnson's March 9 editorial on the virtues of capitalism was a hilarious but depressing example of what happens when gullible undergraduates apply the toys we are given in Social Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics" (Ec 10) to the real world. What is taught in Ec 10 has the dubious virtue of being very, very simple. As Johnson went to such offensive lengths to point out, "(a)nyone who has learned to spell the word economics should understand this theory...
...ALLEN is suing an old man for $12 million, charging him with libel. After reading in the National Enquirer the account of a 71-year-old ex-film librarian named Henry Armstrong in which he described the day he allegedly got run over by Allen and his Ferrari, Allen filed suit, upset that Armstrong's quotes ("He was bleary-eyed and unsteady on his feet, and he never said, 'Sorry.'") made him sound drunk. Armstrong, upset that Allen ran him over, has filed a suit...
...remainder of the compositions on the Allen set, with the exception...
Haden's elegant "First Song," are of a moreexploratory and less melodic vein than thosechosen by the Rubalcaba trio. Motian seems to bemore involved in Allen's trio, venturing into theforeground even when not soloing...
...represent the way tributeconcerts should be done whenever possible: withthe active musical involvement of the artist beinghonored, and of his most distinguished colleagues.Either of the Montreal Tapes should notdisappoint; the one that is preferable is largelya matter of the listener's affinity for thedivergent piano styles of Rubalcaba and Allen...