Word: ops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most substantial work on the disk is the D-major transcription of Brahms' G-major violin sonata, Op. 78, published shortly before the composer's death. Experts still dispute whether this version was written by Brahms himself, Julius Klengel, Paul Klengel, or someone else. Some people denounce the transcription; but Brahms himself loved the mellow low range, which makes this version a valuable alternative...
...draft registration brings memories back to the surface. Exxon and Mobil will be distressed to learn that large numbers of America's youth think oil isn't worth dying for. "What the fuck have they ever done for me?" asked one, obviously not a regular reader of the Times op-ed page...
Give Dave Anderson, Dave Kindred and Leigh Montville columns on their respective newspapers' op-ed pages. Move David Broder over to sports...
Even liberal Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) suggested last week in a New York Times op-edpiece that tax cuts to businessmen before individuals may be in the best long-term interests of the country. The premise of individual tax cuts--that consumers would use additional disposable income as the savings needed to stem inflation--is a flimsy one at best. External factors such as snowballing oil, food and medical costs point to consumer behavior that entails running as fast as possible to stay in the same place--that is, spending. Republicans respond to such criticism by denying...
...Chairman Irving Shapiro told TIME'S Elizabeth Rudulph: "They ring the bell with their readers. People are seeing in print what they believe themselves." But even Shapiro admits that Journal editorials tend to be "somewhat strident." That stridency is at least partly redeemed by the Journal's op-ed page, a mélange of opinion (not always conservative), letters to the editor and coverage of the arts. The page now appears twice weekly but will become a daily feature in January...