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...political clout in the city. No elected official can stand against them. If the Federal Government is to bail the city out, municipal government as we have known it in New York City must come to an end. This may not be so bad. While it is hard to wax rhapsodical over the prospect of Burns, Simon and Ford running the city's finances, at least such a troika would be insulated from the kind of political pressure that has made it impossible for any elected official in New York to produce a sane budget...
...marble has the soft, veiled surface of wax. The play between smooth volume and wiry, chiseled line that gave such life to Nadelman's Greek models is not there...
...wanderings of freer "black music" and the excesses of more melodic (read electronic) music. Davis and Ghetto Mysticism have been nearly alone as proponents of free music in Boston, and anyone whose ears have been plugged against the softer wares of so-called jazz-folk can pull out the wax this week at the Jazz Workshop through Sunday. Cover's only...
...Marglin, whose circle of friends waned with the student movement, will patiently wait for it to wax again. Until then, he will remain Harvard's only tenured radical economist--a mistake the faculty made when their guard was down, but the best evidence that alternative approaches cannot be easily silenced...
Historians dealt with this aspect of his life delicately because they sensed that the real story lay bound in leather and sealed in wax in the 41 volumes of Gladstone's diary, which his sons deposited with the Archbishop of Canterbury. The volumes, covering his life from 1840 to 1854, are now being published by Oxford University Press. They show that Gladstone was so guilt-stricken over what he regarded as shameful sexual thoughts that he frequently went home after his "rescue" meetings with prostitutes and whipped himself. Then he carefully noted the episodes of flagellation in his diary...