Word: vanguardism
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...perplexing to watch Rockwell extol an "outsider" or vanguard composer for'eign willing to depart from the ordinary and then give the distinct impression that his subject is not worth writing about. In the middle of a discussion of the problems posed by minimalist composer Philip Glass, he says of the subject of an earlier essay. "A composer like [Frederic] Rzewski can shift facilely from idiom to idiom because, to be blunt, nobody cares what he does, least of all the people...
...officials in Southern California believe they are confronting the vanguard of such deceptions. "Many forms of tax evasion-the ideas-seem to start in California and spread elsewhere, just as fads start out here," says Ron Saranow, chief of the IRS Criminal Investigations Division for the region. One of the local figures who most irritate California tax authorities is Armen Condo, a self-styled "maverick minister" who heads an organization called Your Heritage Protection Association, based in Orange County. With a dues-paying flock of 15,000, Condo took in an estimated $2 million in three years while preaching...
While the vanguard of this scene may have passed into their 20s, the audience is largely high school. The boys may like to imitate the cocky flash of what a graffiti artist named Phase 2 calls "the stickup kids," but most of them score their clothes as gifts from parents or-goodbye to another bit of downtown mythology-pay for them with money from part-time jobs. Clothes in this culture are seminal enough to work hard for. "People tend to think if you're poor, you're not supposed to have anything," Phase 2 says. "But when...
Were I in need of an editorial on "big issues." I doubt I would flatter The Crimson by turning to page two. I would look to the Globe, the Times, the New Republic, Moral Majority News, Workers Vanguard--anywhere but The Crimson. Whether or not the average Harvard student is ignorant, apathetic, or stupid, it is not up to The Crimson to chastise...
Another fear about falling oil prices is that they could do more damage to the already faltering efforts to develop alternative energy sources. In West Germany, says Economist Liane Launhardt of Commerzbank, research money for vanguard work on solar energy, coal gasification and synthetic fuel may dry up. France is deeply committed to an ambitious nuclear program, which now generates 39% of the country's electricity. The French want to raise that figure to 70% by 1990, but if oil prices slide, the investment could end up being extremely uneconomical...