Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kinky, you say? Kind of off-the-wall? Well, maybe. But WHRB sees its role as just that--giving airtime to avant-garde groups and offering parallel fare to that played on the large, popular radio stations...
Stewart Kagan '80, head of classical programming, echoes Falk in defending the originality of selections played on the station. "We avoid playing the classical 'warhorses' of WCRB--the popular classical music station." Beethoven's Fifth, Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet" and Mussorgsky's "Night On Bald Mountain" all qualify as warhorses, says Kagan...
...pledged to cut it to "$30 billion or less" next year. As part of the effort to do so, he said he would veto any plan for any income tax cut beyond the $18.7 billion slash recently enacted by Congress, even though "tax reduction has never been more politically popular than it is today...
...Greenleaf Whittier, who wrote, "Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: 'It might have been.' " It might have been that if Carter had taken certain steps earlier, inflation would be lower, the economy would be stronger and the President would be more popular. Hindsight, of course, is one of the few cheap things in this inflationary age. But it has value as a guide to those who do not wish to be condemned to repeat the past. In short, Carter may learn from previous mistakes -his own and those of others...
Brooke's backers range from Henry Kissinger to black Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson. But Tsongas has a popular supporter too: Senator Edward Kennedy. In the past, Kennedy has never actively helped Brooke's opponents. But sensing that Brooke is in serious trouble, Kennedy has taped TV commercials in behalf of Tsongas, who in turn backs Kennedy's national health insurance plan. If Brooke loses, he will have one small consolation: the Ethics Committee will probably call off its investigation. Otherwise, the probe will...