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...trade, Kansas City-born Virgil Thomson studied music in Paris (after Harvard), was an organist, choirmaster and freelance writer on music before he went to the Herald Tribune. He left New York's music public gasping with his very first column, a deft and devastating panning of the sacrosanct Philharmonic-Symphony ("the sombre and spiritless sonority of a German military band"). Thereafter, he shaded old-style critics by his saucy phrases, e.g., hearing Violinist Jascha Heifetz overpower a sonatina "made one feel . . . that one had somehow got on the Queen Mary to go to Brooklyn." His compliments were...
...tradition. Pay-as-you-see proponents fear FCC also believes the air should be free, but they see no reason why FCC cannot set aside certain channels for their use, while free telecasting continues on all the other channels. They think the tradition of free programs is no more sacrosanct than the tradition of free roads; those who want to travel faster now pay to use toll roads. In the same way, they feel that televiewers willing to pay to see better programs should be permitted to do so. distressed," while retaining the present provision permitting losses to be carried...
...excuses both administrations have given for their manipulations of a system previously regard as sacrosanct are based on the idea that an administration is more effective when run by its friends. But this assumes that a non-partisan civil service, the bellwether of European governments, is beyond achievement in the U.S. Only policy-making positions need be held by partisans. A lawyer who prosecutes under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (act this was the case for which the judicial ruling was made) is not making policy. But the new ruling, applied by future Presidents with less respect for the civil...
Ever since Social Security was instituted by New Deal economists in 1937, the nation has regarded it as sacrosanct, above the heaving floor of the political arena. Both parties bless it in their platforms an invariably call for increased benefits. Week after week, year after year the working man sees one and a half percent deducted from his pay check and is fully confident that, come 65, he will retire on a guaranteed income. Social Security is untouched by the ebb and flow of economic and political tides because its payments come entirely from a trust fund maintained by scaled...
...eight months since he stepped into Punch's editor's chair, Malcolm Muggeridge has been trying to put the punch back into Britain's famed but ailing weekly humor magazine. Last week ex-Newsman (London Daily Telegraph) Muggeridge broke the most sacrosanct Punch tradition of all: he changed the cover for the first time in 109 years. For a special issue on British television, Muggeridge replaced Punch's elves, capering gnomes and rogues with caricatures of Britons debating commercially sponsored-TV on the British Broadcasting Corp. (among the recognizable faces: Press Lords Beaverbrook, Rothermere, Camrose...