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...Page's The Glenn Gould Reader (Knopf; $20) is wider in scope. A collection of some 70 speeches, magazine articles, book reviews, radio broadcasts and record-liner notes, it displays Gould's controversial musical perspicacity in such essays as Data Bank on the Upward-Scuttling Mahler and Hindemith: Will His Time Come? Again?. An accomplished parodist, Gould mocks Arthur Rubinstein's kiss-and-tell autobiographies in Memories of Maude Harbour: "I resolved to address every note of my performance to her and her alone and to inquire into the country's statutory-rape provisions at intermission." Gould even gleefully assaults...
...blue liner made his presence felt with a goal and three assists...
...many issues, Weinberger is regarded as the leading hard-liner in the Reagan Administration. He has been skeptical even about pursuing nuclear arms-control negotiations with the Soviets. Yet last week's speech, which he wrote himself and delivered to the National Press Club, was prudent. And the precision of his manifesto was welcome from an Administration that has seemed disconcertingly vague about its foreign policy goals. Weinberger cleared the speech in advance with the White House and got approval from the National Security Council. A few hours before he delivered it, he gave a copy to Secretary...
Even when he was wincing in pain as attendants tried to weigh him, Schroeder managed to get off a ones-liner. "I'm going to remember this," she griped at the staff. "I want the name of everybody in this room, starting with the big guy," he said, I pointing at the 6-ft., 5-in. DeVries. In the view of Schroeder's wife of 32 years, Margaret, her husband appeared to be "more comfortable" last week "than he had been for months before the implant." She told a news conference, "Once we went down toward that operating...
...embarrassment occurred two days before the planned visit when 192 tourists left the Polish cruise liner Stefan Batory in Hamburg; many of them immediately began the quest for asylum. Their example was quickly followed. At week's end West German authorities reported that an additional 126 Poles had jumped ship from the ferry Rogalin when it docked in Travemünde, a town near the East German border...