Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dismayed to read in The New York Times that you have invited President Reagan to speak at the 350th anniversary convocation and that Harvards is considering whether to award him an honorary degree, I write to oppose an honorary degree and to urge you to seek some way to withdraw your invitation to him to speak...
...WOLFE once said that the experience of being a graduate student was so excruciatingly painful that he and his fellow sufferers were forever promising to write novels describing it. They were deterred, he recalled, by the realization that such novels would be so depressing that no one would read them and that the authors wouldn't be able to finish them anyway. Fortunately, though, Doubting Thomas by Robert Reeves '73 is a stylish exception to such a potential parade of academia's angst...
...involvement in movies proved a watershed. Director Conrad Rooks, who was making Chappaqua, a counterculture movie with a score by Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, asked Glass to write down Shankar's complex, exotic melodies so that six bewildered Parisian studio musicians could play them. "Ravi and his tabla player, Alla Rahka, kept telling me I was getting it all wrong," Glass recalls. "No matter how I tried to notate the music, they kept shaking their heads. Out of sheer desperation, I just eliminated the bar lines altogether -- which, of course, revealed the fact that Indians don't divide music...
Effective lobbyists, naturally, can offer credible policy arguments for almost any tax break. Under current law, for instance, apartment builders can quickly write off the cost of construction, particularly for low-income apartments, and deduct their property taxes. By cutting back these tax breaks, the Administration would drive up the cost of building and owning apartments, and consequently drive up rents as well. Taxpayers can now deduct state and ; local taxes from their federal returns. To the outrage of politicians from high-tax states, this break would be wiped out by the Reagan plan, thus saving the Treasury $22 billion...
...rates on business, board members attacked other changes in the treatment of corporations. Feldstein, who supports the investment tax credit and generous depreciation allowances now available, called some of the suggested revisions "rather misguided." The Administration's plans to drop the tax credit and tighten the depreciation write-offs, he argued, would discourage companies from building new factories and adding equipment...