Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schubert: String Quintet in C major (Melos Quartet, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich; Deutsche Grammophon). This is a near-perfect recording of Schubert's greatest chamber work. The playing and the balance between instruments are all but flaw less; Rostropovich's singing bass line is outstanding, and the gay third movement scherzo is joyous as a Highland fling...
...Keith) Rupert Murdoch did not endear himself to the Manhattan publishing establishment when, two years ago, he snapped up the New York Post, New York magazine and the Village Voice, and began remaking the Post according to his own tabloid tastes. Last week the publishers had even less reason to love Murdoch. In a move variously regarded as daring, cynical and even brilliant, the Australian broke ranks with his fellow publishers and made a separate peace with nine striking unions. His Post thus became the first major New York newspaper to hit the streets since it, the Daily News...
Murdoch was under far less economic pressure to go it alone against fellow publishers than was former Post Owner Dorothy Schiff during the 114-day strike of 1962-63. Schiff settled with the unions 28 days before the other papers, insisting that otherwise the Post would fold. Murdoch was reported to be losing up to $12 million a year on the paper before the strike, so by not publishing he may merely have been cutting his losses. Additionally, Murdoch's New York magazine and Village Voice picked up a circulation and ad revenue windfall from the strike-Voice...
...open where they could keep an eye on him. That role troubled Murdoch, especially after Theodore Kheel, the labor lawyer and supermediator, was called in by the unions, with assent from the News and the Times, to get negotiations moving when they seemed stalled. Murdoch saw Kheel less as an observer than an active arbiter, who might dictate terms inimical to the Post. "They put him out in front to take all the heat, then they cut him down from behind with Kheel," says a source close to Murdoch. "He wasn't going to do their dirty work." Feeling...
...dislocations that propelled America from a somnolent agrarianism to a modern industrialism, said that if Rip van Winkle had fallen asleep in Muncie in 1885 and awakened in 1929, he would not be able to cope with the new Middletown. The new researchers think his awakening would be far less rude today. Says Caplow: "If Rip van Winkle went to sleep 50 years ago and returned to Muncie today, he would not have too many adjustment problems...