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...couldn't believe Harvard's record when they played us the first time. They are a much better than their record," Princeton Coach Glenn Nelson said. "They are 1000 percent better than they were two years ago. Wayne's done a great job turning the team around...
That statement created a stir when the Times Mirror Co. recently sponsored a press forum in Washington. Jack Nelson, the outspoken bureau chief for the Times, said, "I think there is a real contempt for the press within the Reagan Administration, and I think it starts at the top." Nelson feels his colleagues are insufficiently aggressive in covering the Administration, "and I don't think television is aggressive...
ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH: Symphony No. 1; Celebration; Prologue and Variations. Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Nelson. (New World). JOHN HARBISON: Ulysses' Bow; Samuel Chapter. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andre Previn; Soprano Susan Larson, with Collage conducted by Harbison. (Nonesuch). There is nothing far-out about either Zwilich, the 1983 Pulitzer prizewinner, or Harbison, currently composer-in-residence with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Both are solid craftsmen whose music is informed by an eloquent melodic voice, and each is especially adept at writing for the symphony orchestra. Zwilich's First Symphony is a big, bold, brassy work, propelled...
...high-inflation '70s. In all, the Big Board spent $200 million on its modernization during the past five years. When the stock market perked up again starting in the early 1980s, the major institutional investors quickly spotted the advantages of scale and sophistication offered by electronics. Says Richard Nelson, a vice president with Manhattan's Bankers Trust: "Ten years ago, you simply could not sell or buy more than 20 or 30 stocks at the same time. Now we routinely sell multiples...
...Democratic gains in the proper perspective, we must first consider their 1980 losses. In that year incumbent defeats in divisive primaries, scandal, and infirmity account for five seats. The defeats of prominent liberals like Bath, Church, Culver, Durkin, McGovern and Nelson were the basis of the grand interpretations of the outcomes. But as a class these were exceedingly vulnerable candidates. Excepting Nelson, their average vote in the preceding election was 53 percent, and their previous election was 1974--the most disastrous Republican year in a generation. In short, these liberal Senators were living on borrowed time. Had 1974 been...