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With a single stroke of the pun, Clive Barnes once had the power to make or break a Broadway show. But the mighty dance-and-drama critic of the New York Times was stripped of his theater post last March. Enter Australian Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, who hired Barnes for his afternoon paper, the New York Post. Says the Oxford-educated Barnes: "Anyone attached to the New York Times has a kind of instant credibility and instant glamour. One wonders how much that is a cloak bestowed by the paper and how much...
...around the country, this week reporting on anti-nuclear demonstrations at Seabrook; Cesar Chavez's first major organizing attempt outside the Southwest; native Hawaiians' battles with the Defense Department, and the utilities companies' efforts to take over rights to solar energy. The inevitable Washington column is written by Alan Baron, who puts out an insider's newsletter from the capital, and contains some interesting tidbits: Carter's inability to get around Senate recommendations in his efforts to appoint blacks and women to federal judgeships, and his difficulties with American Jews over his Middle East policies--Hamilton Jordan flew...
...Harvard Band held its annual fall concert, featuring Boston Symphony Orchestra's trombone soloist Ronald Baron, last night...
...program opened with the jazz Band, featuring Bill Thompson, a Boston musician, as the guest soloist. The Concert Band and Baron followed with Arthur Pryor's "The Bluebells of Scotland...
Toward the end of his life, generously laden with honors and awards, he found himself surrounded, like the wine baron in one of his last poems, by uncritical admirers. But he could still regard his immense reputation with humor and grace. "I used to want to live/ to avoid your elegy," he wrote of the late John Berryman; and he did live, if not as long as his friends or the world would have wanted, at least long enough to write...