Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although I am strongly critical of the union campaign at Harvard, I was nonetheless quite disappointed to see that this meeting drew such a small audience. The union has important things to say, and students should listen to its views, for it offers an important perspective on the present drive...
...does that mean that the union will be a better representative of Harvard's workers? I'm not convinced and am especially concerned because, even at the present stage of the unionizing campaign, organizers openly state that they are more concerned with the power of the union than with the actual issues that are at stake...
...Majestic Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music is puckish too, but in a different way. An abandoned turn-of-the-century beaux arts vaudeville hall, it has been transformed into a performance space (and folly) in which Avant- Garde Director Peter Brook could present his 9 1/2-hour epic, The Mahabharata. The firm of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates has implanted modern plumbing and electrical systems but otherwise has maintained the look of desuetude: chipped plaster and peeling paint, exposed beams and brickwork. The Piranesianism is a bit coy, maybe, but more affecting than much standard spic- and-span preservation...
Some of the forecasters fear the consequences of an upward drift in interest rates. "If the Fed continues on its present course," says John Rutledge, president of the Claremont Economics Institute in California, "then I think that's a danger. The Fed will have to print substantial money next year to keep the economy out of a recession." But in an election year, when the Administration would plainly prefer a loose monetary policy to pump up economic growth, Greenspan could be accused of playing politics at the expense of prudence. Declares Kellner of Manufacturers Hanover: "The financial markets...
...squeezed into the narrow space allocated each channel in the TV broadcast spectrum. For the U.S. to ; switch to the new system, every television station would have to replace its equipment, and the country's 140 million TV sets would have to be scrapped, an unlikely prospect at present...