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...burned out, homeless people camp in boarded-up tenements, small boys peddle angel dust on the streets. In the midst of this chaos, behind a cast-iron fence, three calm acres of grass and flowers surround a stately Tudor building. Students in blue and beige uniforms read in the shade of oak trees. "The oasis," as the facility is called by the community, is one of more than 100 federally funded Job Corps centers in the U.S. Inside its gates 263 young people, ages 16 to 22, mostly high school dropouts from the surrounding ghetto, study English and bookkeeping, cooking...
...first torchlight of the primeval, oaths worked by the magic of the words themselves; later, they glowed with the power of the gods, who were invented to officiate at melodramas. Oaths should be sparingly used and specifically targeted. Their imposing solemnity can shade without warning into the preposterous, into peeled grapes on pledge night, a witch doctoring oogly-boogly like the oath that Tom Sawyer's gang swore in the cave...
Ironically, it was the Europeans and in particular the Germans who were pressing two years ago for a TNF buildup. They thought the Carter Administration was prone to policy zigzags, and they were disconcerted by some Washington stances and statements that seemed a shade too trusting of the Soviets and too complacent about the military balance-not that the Europeans wanted to do much more themselves about their own bit of the balance. It is very hard, of course, to please the Europeans, and especially the Germans. President Reagan and his people bother Europe whenever they sound at all belligerent...
Still, the sweeteners amount to more than a jar of jelly beans. Some were a shade outrageous. Rostenkowski, who has been saying that the G.O.P. version favors Big Business and wealthy individuals, protected a tax write-off for some 2,500 commodities dealers who straddle the market through offsetting buy and sell orders. Not surprisingly, the commodities market is based in Rostenkowski's home city of Chicago. Republicans offered a special deduction to truckers, who were strong supporters of Reagan's candidacy...
...White House last week had gathered at a great occasion. On a platform were Conductor Leonard Slatkin and, instruments at the ready, New York's Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. In the audience: the President of the United States. But the real guest of honor was the shade of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose long-lost Symphony in F, K. 19a, was having its American premiere more than two centuries after it was written and several months after it mysteriously surfaced in West Germany. The composer was all of nine when he wrote...