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...Things are out of balance, because singers are not up to the level of the instrumentalists. There is much still to be learned about Baroque vocal technique. We are used to instrumental dominance in opera, and that is our problem...
Residential tenants, especially those in rent-controlled buildings, provide the most vocal, objections to HRE policies, in part because they are largely protected from the fear of retaliation by the rent-control bureaucracy. In the past few months, activists in many Harvard buildings have come together form the HTU; and though Silverman says the group will probably "fade away" like small-building groups of the past, Turk says the HTU "has the potential to be substantial and enduring. There is a sense of tapping into a really powerful feeling among Harvard tenants...
...this long process will come a "reform" that some students consider futile. Ross Boylan '81-3, a Student Assembly delegate and vocal critic of the Dowling Committee, says the committee's proposals "do not make any real change, because any decision which students take part in will be advisory. If the Faculty and administration were seriously interested in involving students in College governance, they would give us final say in some areas, like student life...
These actions may have been a tentative-and no doubt reluctant-tip of the hat in the direction of a group of vocal Wall Street critics who have been arguing all spring that inflationary pressures were still strong and were likely to intensify as a result of Reagan's combination of large tax cuts and hefty boosts in defense spending. The most prominent of these skeptics are a pair of bad news bears: Henry Kaufman, 53, chief economist for the investment banking house of Salomon Bros., and Albert M. Wojnilower (pronounced Wodge-nee-lauer), 51, who holds the same...
...many may not get the joke. In 1975 he and Harry Shearer wrote and produced A Star Is Bought, a record album ostensibly designed to "sell" Albert Brooks to various radio audiences. There was a patriotic monologue for country stations, a novelty record for the Top-40 market, a vocal version of Bolero, a Jack Benny-type radio show for the nostalgia network. Each track was, of course, meticulously uncommercial. The Brooks character was eager to sell out, but so inept that nobody wanted...