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...ancient Chinese music, to Afro-American songs of the 19th century. Undergraduate courses in Chinese music, American folk and popular genres, and Jazz will also continue to be offered. All of these courses are supported by the steadily expanding collections of the Archive of World Music and the Seeger Room of the Music Library...
...attractive to workers with seniority who are in little danger of being laid off during a recession. Many of them would undoubtedly make less money in a share economy than they do now. For that reason, labor unions are decidedly cool toward the proposal. Says Murray Seeger, director of information for the AFL-CIO: "This scheme would continue the suppression of workers' earnings." Weitzman says the Government would have to lead the way in overcoming worker opposition. He suggests that employees who accept a share plan be given income tax breaks similar to the preferential treatment of capital gains...
...responsibility for his defeat. If anything, they say, Mondale dug his own grave by not campaigning directly on labor issues. Many union officials maintain that the interest ignited by the early endorsement greatly strengthened their political apparatus. "The process produced its intended result," says AFL-CIO Spokesman Murray Seeger. "It's given us a kind of excitement, a kind of unity we never...
...made films before, and he knows that MGM wants to make loads of money. Therefore his film possesses all the advertising and proper packaging of Porky's or Meatballs. The heavily promoted soundtrack, a good sign of a bad movie, is from well-established dead armadilloes like Bob Seeger, 38 Special...
These American Communists fought on so many fronts, and gave and got the best and the worst of it. As Folk Singer Pete Seeger says in Seeing Red, "Don't mourn for a fighter who made a mistake and lost, but mourn the suckers who never bothered putting up a fight." They rejected the skeptics in their midst. Recalls Dorothy Healey, who for a quarter-century headed the party's Southern California district: "What was the meaning of life? You had that answer." But those same eyes, sparkling with conviction, could be blinkered in the face of such...