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President Reagan, ever ready to quote Harry Truman, should recall the former President's wise words about defense spending: "All through history it's the nations that have given the most to the generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall." Andrew H. Schauer Topeka, Kans...
Despite the problems with this work, there is a lot of promise here Rockwell's argument for musical pluralism and experimentation is a convincing one, but the structure of the book creates many problems it would have been wise to model All American Music after Rolling Stone's inferior but useful "Illustrated History of Rock & Roll," which combines essays about the most important artists with more general pieces providing an overall view of a particular movement Rockwell would have been able to discuss his themes more thoroughly and could have better dealt with artists he should not have ignored...
...Paul H. Wise '78, director of emergency and primary care services at Boston Children's Hospital, said "illness and death are the ultimate expressions of inequity in our society...
...easy," misused girl who's too proud to cry; or contemplate Jill's half-embarrassed smile when she goes dancing cheek to Sheik; or fall in with the gliding camera that circles the young lovers during their first sexy kiss. Sayles is, as always, wise and fair to his mismatched characters. His movies look as if they were made by a fly on the wall that had an advanced degree in psychology. - By Richard Corliss
...lecture ends, Professor Wise reminds the class to fill out the weekly workload questionnaires and bring them to section Last term, students complained that the work--especially the beeted-up quantitative homework--was too heavy. As a result, the core program began handing out weekly rating sheets to be filled out by students and to help professors settle on a manageable pace...