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Celebrated Animal Trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams...
...White House itself or in the nearby Executive Office Building. In a sense, Reagan is trying to bridge the constitutional gulf between the White House and the Congress. Laxalt sees no legal bars to the plan. Some constitutional scholars, however, see problems. Stanford Law School Professor Gerald Gunther says it could be argued that "this novel institutional arrangement is incompatible with the purpose of the constitutional ban against any member of Congress holding an executive office...
Symphony players, says Gunther Schuller [July 21], are embittered, disgruntled, bored, apathetic and cynical. Right. Schuller blames the musicians' union, boards of trustees, conductors. Wrong. The blame lies mainly in the nature of the work itself. Symphony players seldom enjoy the music they are playing because, while they can usually hear what is happening in their immediate surroundings, they can't hear the whole. Moreover, there is no occupation as regimented as orchestral playing. Every note has to be played as the conductor wants...
Today's U.S. orchestra musicians are better trained, more accomplished, better paid and more widely applauded than ever before. Hence, as they sit onstage performing the masterworks of music history, it follows that they must be serenely happy. Right? Wrong, says Composer-Conductor Gunther Schuller. Symphonic players are "embittered, disgruntled, bored" and "have come to hate music," Schuller maintains. Traveling around the country as a guest conductor, he finds not joy but "apathy and cynicism" abounding in orchestral ranks; despite their high technical competence, the musicians have no "spiritual identification" with the scores they play...
...capable and conventional judge with moderate political views. Thus far, Stevens has surprised observers by siding often with the liberal Justices. Those reckless enough to label him at all regard him as left of center. "But he gets there in peculiar ways," says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther...