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Reagan wanted. So the President on Tuesday sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker offering "to meet the Congress halfway" but clearly threatening a veto if the legislators refused to go at least that far. House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois had already introduced a proposal that would have reduced social spending about $4 billion and defense outlays $2 billion...
Elusive and exasperating, Michel Foucault has a growing cult...
Watching French Marxists grapple with the radical theories of Michel Foucault, says the philosopher's Translator Alan Sheridan, is like watching "a policeman attempting to arrest a particularly outrageous drag queen." The solemn specialists who patrol the American university have their own difficulties with Foucault. Leo Bersani of the French department at Berkeley eulogizes him as "our most brilliant philosopher of power," but Yale Historian Peter Gay dismisses him: "He doesn't do any research, he just goes on instinct." Anthropologist Clifford Geertz of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study attempts a new classification: "He has become...
...main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like writing film and opera music. I believe that it fulfills the needs of particular situations. My opera, Escorial, to a text by Michel de Gilderone, is a return to the Theater of the Absurd, popular in the '20s, but in a very contemporary style. In a sense, Napoleon is a film-opera. The San Fransisco Opera has even included it in the subscription part of its season...
...scheduled to decide this week which further cuts in entitlement programs to recommend, and Stockman has made no secret of his desire "to take more out of the school lunch program. But any additional reductions will meet resistance in Congress, even from loyal Reaganites. House Republican Leader Robert Michel last week sent a letter to the American School Food Service Association asserting hopefully: "I don't believe any further cuts are contemplated by the Administration or Congress at this time. We recognize that it is a very important program that should be continued...