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...quarrel fully with modernism. He writes warmly about his youthful passion for the likes of Armstrong, Beiderbecke and Ellington, but charges that Bebop Saxophonist Charlie Parker destroyed it all with music that gave "the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously." Parker thus joins Pound and Picasso in Larkin's unholy trinity of decadent experimenters, and jazz's evolution becomes a capsule version of the "degeneration into private and subsidized absurdity" that he believes is overtaking all the arts. What has been lost, Larkin insists, is his conception of the right relation between artist...
DIED. George Oppen, 76, Pulitzer-prizewinning poet of spare, free-form verse; in Sunnyvale, Calif. An active leftist, he gave up poetry for 28 years for political involvement, living by publishing the work of such poets as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and by laboring as a tool-and-die maker and furniture designer...
...banks last week raised the prime rate that they charge corporate customers from 12.5% to 13%. That helped boost the dollar to record highs against the British pound and the Canadian dollar. The U.S. currency also hit a peak for the year vs. the Japanese yen, and a seven-year high against the Swiss franc. Many economists expect further hikes in interest rates and a continued strong dollar...
Branson maintains that Laker failed because he bought too many planes too soon and then was battered by the sinking value of the pound against the dollar. A big fleet is not Branson's problem. As of last week Virgin Atlantic consisted of one airplane, a Boeing Branson with a model of his Virgin aircraft...
Wreatler Paul Wideman '83 won the pre-Olympic trials meet in the 165 pound weight class and is now the top seed in the final rounds. Jeff Clark '88, who will enter Harvard in next year's Freshman class, is in the finals in Greco-Roman wrestling...