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...troubled and troublesome college Class of 1968 tends to have a sober, even tragic view of life. They were high school seniors in the year that John Kennedy, a politician who gained their trust and inspired their ambitions, was shot to death in Dallas. They were college seniors in the year that Martin Luther King, the Negro leader who tapped their idealism and drew them into social protest, was murdered in Memphis. Throughout all of their college careers, the war in Viet Nam has tormented their conscience, forced them to come to personal decisions relating self and society, country...
Poor No More. And the poor need not always be with us. Certainly, in a modern industrial society and a free-enterprise system, the hard-core unemployed and unemployable will be around for a long time. The needed initiatives, which still require sound and sober study, include the guaranteed annual wage, the family allowance (which only the U.S. among the world's maior industrial democracies denies its citizens), and the negative income tax, which late last month was endorsed by a committee of industrialists including Ford's Arjay Miller and Xerox Chairman Joseph C. Wilson. The statistic that moves businessmen...
...that isn't daunting enough, a glance back over the record of previous directors would sober the most sanguine candidate. In 1964, Herbert von Karajan quit in a huff over "bureaucratic interference." Karl Boehm was virtually booed out of the job in 1956. The strain of it all gave Herbert Strohm a nervous breakdown in 1941. As fine a conductor as Felix Weingartner lasted only 20 months in 1935-36-and that was his second fling at the job. Even the demonic Gustav Mahler, who gave the house a decade of discipline and creativity from 1897 to 1907, left...
...most of the time he plies a sober, analytical course through the jazz recordings made between New Orleans' Storyville days and the birth of the big-band era in the early 1930s. He scrutinizes Louis Armstrong's solo on Big Butter and Egg Man (1926) as if it were a song of Mozart's. In fact, he writes, "not even a Mozart or a Schubert composed anything more natural and simply inspired." Blues Singer Bessie Smith's laments of a gin-soaked life might as well be lieder sung by Lotte Lehmann for the way Schuller...
...remember one old man who spoke after a sober and moving exposition of the terrible damage to maternal health caused by forcing a partially crippled woman to bear a full term pregnancy. The old man, who purported to be the leader of a "moral conservation society," asserted that a change in the law would somehow be an extension of the affront to society posed by the hippies "who feel they have a right to live together...