Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fear that President Nixon's new game plan for the economy [Aug. 30] will prove but another palliative, providing symptomatic relief only. Until something is done to limit the monopoly powers of labor unions, hack away at bloated budgets with their expansionary deficits and multiplier-effect powers, and restore market pressures to industries currently propped up by subsidies and tariffs, the pressures that created the present situation will persist...
...fight to control inflation [Aug. 16], you have it all backward! Teacher organizations and other public-servant groups have only begun to strike and bargain effectively within the past decade. Industrial labor unions have been powerful for much longer. So when workers in private industry win substantial raises, civil servants "quite naturally feel an urge to match them." Not vice versa...
...John Lindsay [Aug. 23] does for the Democratic Party what he did for the Republican, then a moment's silence and a shed tear are most certainly in order for the Democrats...
Songs by Hugo Wolf (Seraphim; $2.98). A single LP made from off-the-air tapes of one of Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's finest and most famous hours as a lieder singer- her recital in the Salzburg Mozarteum on Aug. 12, 1953. Words and melody blend the way they do partly because of her eminent piano accompanist, Wilhelm Furtwangler, who on this record plays the way he usually conducted: rounding phrases majestically, seeing to it that voice and instrument are blended perfectly...
...balsa raft he called Kon-Tiki, the Incan name for sun-god. Young Heyerdahl entertained a theory that Incan raftsmen might thus have freighted their civiliza tion to Polynesia. He failed to convince most fellow scholars that Peruvian-Polynesian cultural coincidences were more than just that. But by Aug. 7, when he cracked up on a coral reef 4,300 miles from Peru (and 250 miles east of Tahiti), Heyerdahl had proved indubitably that a balsa raft could cross the Pacific. He had also become a celebrity- one of those adventurers who stir the thin blood of the technological...