Word: glenns
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This theme has also been raised by some black intellectuals, who have criticized traditional civil rights leaders for failing to promote the notion that poor blacks should take more responsibility for teenage pregnancy and social disintegration within the ghetto. Harvard Government Professor Glenn Loury, one of the leading lights of this new movement, told the Democrats that welfare "makes it possible" for a recipient to remain locked in poverty. Calling for a "frank acknowledgment" of the pathological behavior of some segments of the underclass, he stressed that welfare recipients should be encouraged to develop an "obligation" to improve their situation...
Defenders of the wedding bond highlighted the plight of the divorced spouse. They played upon the fears of countryfolk, especially women, stranded in economically ravaged areas, where unemployment is often well over 50%. One study cited by Alice Glenn, a breakaway member of parliament from FitzGerald's Fine Gael party, revealed that 93% of divorced women with children in the U.S. live below the poverty line. "A woman voting for divorce," Glenn often repeated, "is like a turkey voting for Christmas...
...Glenn Gould, piano...
...many quarters, the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould (1932-1982) is remembered mainly for his personal eccentricity. Gould's quirks are legendary: he played in a chair so low his face was only inches from the keyboard, never gave a public concert after the early 1960s (he thought listening to music should be a solitary experience), and wore winter jackets in the heat of summer...
...surprising, then, that CBS decided to re-release Gould recordings of Romantic-era music as the third volume of its ongoing Glenn Gould Legacy series. (The first two volumes contain music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn; a fourth, of 20th century works, will be released in September.) The assortment of music on this three-record set, released last month, is very odd for a Romantic piano music collection: three sonatinas by Jean Sibelius, an obscure sonata by Richard Strauss, two transcriptions by Gould of highlights from Wagner operas, and more conventional repertoire by Brahms and Grieg...