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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long before Coors even spoke, you ran an opinion piece by Matthew H. Joseph warning students against believing the "clever lies" the author insisted Mr. Coors would say. This week you ran a staff editorial (March 6) expressing pride that Harvard students had allowed Mr. Coors to have his way unmolested, as if it was an incredible, unprecedented gift to let the head of a major U.S. company exercise his right of free speech at Harvard. Thanking Harvard for allowing free speech is like thanking the University for supplying heat in the dorm rooms; both are fundamental, basic rights which...
...recent opinion piece by Kevin Malisani (March 9), the author accuses the Conservative Club of inviting "provocative" speakers to campus and then providing massive security to instigate a riot. Let's deal with this point by point...
...some cases, Talbott and co-author Michael Mandelbaum's superficiality is reflected in a startling failure to substantiate even their simplest statements. The authors hardly support the easy conclusion that the Soviet-American rapprochement in the '70s failed because each nation sought unilateral advantages over the other...
...only incidentally biographical. In digesting countless reviews, Horowitz has provided a valuable look at the state of American music criticism during the first half of the century. And in a separate chapter, he also provides a musical assessment by examining Toscanini's recordings in formidable detail. But the author's most important contribution is his analysis of Toscanini's pervasive influence on what music was programmed and the way it was performed: the conductor's determination to play certified great works defined, and confined, the repertoire for the next generation of musicians. Igor Stravinsky, whose music Toscanini largely ignored, lamented...
...President, exposed as uninvolved and unaware, must try to redraw the panel' s devastating portrait of a leaderless Administration. -- Washington hails the choice of Howard Baker as chief of staff. -- Computer memos detail Oliver North' s reckless overreaching. -- Reagan Agonistes: Author Garry Wills muses on the evanescence of the Reagan bedazzlement. See NATION...