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...significant performance yet. He led the London Philharmonia Orchestra through his signature piece on the opening night of the prestigious, snooty Salzburg Festival, not far from one of the Alpine lakes where Mahler composed the sprawling, five-movement work a century ago. Predictably, some critics did dismiss the event forthwith. "A multimillionaire's cold flirt," complained one; "no trace of Viennese charm," groused another. Austrians have long been loath to admit that anyone other than themselves can properly perform the Austro-German classics, and few would care to admit to an American's mastery...
Successful results of immediate attention with corrective measures taken forthwith would at least equal the results from the proposed $2 to 2.5 billion capital campaign. In addition, these actions would be self-perpetuating. This should be undertaken as a necessary precondition to launching such a campaign...
...borrows the techniques of Republican attack politics to show that if Sect B has its way, the study of Milton and Titian will be replaced by indoctrination programs in the works of obscure Third World authors and West Coast Chicano subway muralists, and the pillars of learning will forthwith collapse. Meanwhile, Sect B is so stuck in the complaint mode that it can't mount a satisfactory defense, since it has burned most of its bridges to the culture at large...
President Rudenstine could strike an immensely valuable blow for freedom in South Africa by announcing, even at this late date, that Harvard will forthwith divest itself of all holdings in companies doing business in South Africa, and will not reinvest until a genuinely democratic government has been installed. Robert Paul Wolff Professor of Philosophy University of Massachusetts Former Executive Director of HRAAA
Adler has typically been on the opposite tack from the majority since the beginning of his own education. As a precocious 15-year-old who often told chums, "Be quiet; I'm thinking," he discovered that John Stuart Mill had read Plato by age ten. Forthwith Adler devoured Plato's works. With equal speed and assurance, he acquired his scorn for educational conventions, not to mention conventional educators. Then, as now, he found no use for grades: "What do they measure? The ability of some children to bone up for examinations." Given the power, he would abolish all marks...