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When Allison assumed the top post in 1977, the school was running a $200,000-per-year deficit. Making a temporary exception to the University's dictum that each school must raise its own funds, the University offset the school's deficit while Bok and Allison launched a fundraising campaign. During his first eight years as dean, Allison raised about $50 million for the school. Its endowment and capital plant now has an estimated worth of more than $100 million...
Associations, in fact, are the key to understanding New Age music. Perhaps mindful of Stravinsky's famous dictum that music is emotionally neutral, many contemporary composers of serious music have sought to expunge all extramusical references from their work. New Age music, on the other hand, is frankly, if often banally, evocative: of waterfalls, wheatfields, even the mysterious but benign resonance of deep space. All nature is grist for its mill. Former Bebop Jazzman Paul Winter, who is now making New Age records, lists his inspirations as he "African mbira (a hand-held instrument played with the fingers or thumbs...
...show has art and a good deal else, including such totems of futurist affection as a 1911 Bleriot monoplane and a World War I Spad hanging from the cortile roof, and a vintage Bugatti by the canal entrance, to remind one of Marinetti's belligerent and much quoted dictum that "a roaring motorcar that seems to run ( on shrapnel is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace...
...court let stand the rest of Gramm-Rudman, including the dictum that the deficit be cleared in five years. "The law is alive and well," said Rudman. Undeniably, though, the decision stripped Gramm-Rudman of its muscle. The sensitive business of deciding what to cut was tossed back into the political arena just as re-election campaigns intensify...
...relationship between money and freedom has always been philosophically difficult. "One need not go so far as to accept the dictum that money is crystallized freedom," wrote Economist Henry Wallich. "But it is hard to argue that money and freedom have nothing to do with each other . . . Men will die for freedom but they will not necessarily starve for it. A society that wants to be free must not expose its members to this alternative." It is troubling that so much of American freedom is economically defined. It becomes a freedom to make fortunes, to consume happily in a materialist...