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Reaction to the President's address was partisan. Economist Milton Friedman hailed Nixon's decision to avoid wage-and-price controls. University of Minnesota Professor Walter Heller found the President's espousal of wish-boning "better than nothing, but not much." Banker David Rockefeller, who had urged the President to appeal for restraint, termed Nixon's proposals "excellent." But A.F.L.-C.l.O. President George Meany, who has supported Nixon on Viet Nam, disagreed with his plans to end inflation. "I fail to see how they will curb inflation, reduce unemployment and cut interest rates," he said. Emil...
EACH OTHER'S VICTIMS by Milton Travers. 128 pages. Scribner...
Today's version of the Great American Tragedy is teen-age drug addiction. Milton Travers is a pseudonymous magazine writer whose 18-year-old son Ricky became a speed freak and vanished into New York's East Village. In Each Other's Victims, Travers describes how he tracked Ricky down and tried to rescue him. He is brisk, professional and explicit-about his son's life as an addict, about his own confused, guilt-soaked reactions, about the grubby details of the drug culture, or at least that part of it involving amphetamines. Except...
...THOSE crisp Fall evenings of 1941, as Milton Hughes and Pat Grant and John Quincy Adams and the group supported each other tweedily and unsteadily up the paths from Wigglesworth Hall to the Freshman Union after a heavy afternoon of gambling and imbibing, someone must have paused at the crest of the hill near the newly opened Rare Book Library to consider how unlikely it all was. And as they sat at their own linen-covered table in the Union ordering cigars and beer from the waitress-a working-class Cambridge mother, one of Lord Harvard's peasantry-surely they...
Organ music, wrote John Milton in the 1630s, "could dissolve me into ecstasies and bring all heaven before mine eyes." Until the 20th century, most music lovers would have agreed. Despite the revival of interest in Baroque music, the organ's role in modern musical life has been marginal. One reason is the declining importance of the church itself. Another is that organists by temperament seem to be among the most staid of musicians. In the past few years, though, a new excitement has been stirred by organ playing and composing, thanks largely to the talent of a brilliant...