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...cover story this week is about America's greatest newspaper, the venerable New York Times, and how it has come to flourish anew under its fourth publisher, Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger. Many of the interviews were done by Reporter-Researcher Regina Cahill, and Associate Editor Donald Morrison, who has been running our Press section for three years, wrote the story...
...Morrison takes a critical look at many aspects of the Times, but came away impressed by the paper's completeness and ubiquity. Says Morrison with a pinch of hyperbole: "If a tree falls in the forest and there is no New York Times reporter there to record it, the tree never fell. But then there are so many Times reporters around the world that hardly a tree falls that isn't recorded...
...Morrison: A Period of Transition (Warner Bros.). On his first album in three years, Morrison is neither the rock 'n' roller of his early Belfast days, nor the melismatic improviser he has been through much of the 1970s. A Period of Transition leans toward streetgritty rhythm and blues, and Morrison is backed up by New Orleans Gumbo Rocker Mac ("Dr. John") Rebennack, who is the album's keyboard player and coproducer. Somewhat weakened by repetitiveness (one bit of business is repeated 38 times), the record has little meat but plenty of motion...
Oceans, continents, and the chemical elements are all impermanent; and the universe itself will expand indefinitely as its suns fade into darkness, Morrison said...
...There is no real connection between ethics and cosmology," Morrison added. Science leaves room for philosophy and even religion, but concerns itself only with data, he said...