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...popcorn last Friday night. Its fourth annual Midnight Concert, a late-night supper of light, easily-digestible music, strove too hard for broad mass appeal. The program--the most commercial work of Benjamin Britten, the showiest piece of Debussy, and one of the plainest concertii of Mozart--was all butter and no salt...
...economic program adopted by the delegates was less reminiscent of the social-action plans of the '60s than it was of the bread-and-butter reforms of the '30s, when Franklin D. Roosevelt pulled together North and South, laborers, farmers and white collar workers...
David R. Inglis, a University of Massachusetts-Amherst professor of physics who worked on the Union-Sierra Club report, said yesterday the reports' conclusions differ because the AEC report was written by people "whose bread and butter comes from the nuclear enterprise...
SCOTT FITZGERALD was by his own admission a man divided; he wanted to be both wealthy and a serious writer. As extravagant as his fictional characters, Scott was always in debt, and in times of financial need, short stories were his bread and butter. The Saturday Evening Post paid up to $4000 for a potboiler Fitzgerald could finish in a day or two, so he often turned to the Post even though he chafed at having to conform to their writing requirements...
Inflation also seems to have played a role in the decline of college enrollments and the shift in interest, as at Harvard, from the humanities to bread-and-butter studies like premedicine and prelaw. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman thinks that the upper middle class will increasingly ignore private colleges and send their children to public universities, thus "shifting the burden of educating one's children to the poor...