Doublereed Archive - Posting 000038.txt from 2004/06

From: Jackie Kovach <jl.kovach@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Re: doublereed Digest 7 Jun 2004 19:15:01 -0000 Issue 110
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:39:52 -0400

Hi, Frank,

Politically, I agree with all that you say about Reagan and with what
James added about his cutting back funding for the arts in schools. In
fact, he began that as governor of California. Like you, I am sorry he
got Alzheimers and am sorry he has died. But, I feel as Kim, I
believe, in a post yesterday, that the QOD was an acknowledgment of the
specialness of D Day (which affected people world-wide) , coupled with
stirring words (likely not even written by him) of an important figure
who had just passed away. I'd be very surprised if our QOD lady dared
to be purposefully political.

Just my point of view.

Jackie

On Jun 7, 2004, at 11:56 PM, MorBassoon@-----.com wrote:

> Ronald Reagan was responsible for the ill considered deployment of
> marines in
> Lebanon, and more than 200 were killed in one blast. He then had the
> survivors leave with no retaliation. He was (literally)asleep at the
> switch during the
> Iran Conta affair (please refrain from the stupid contra jokes)when an
> act of
> the US congress was flaunted by his staff. He cut his eye teeth
> ratting out
> fellow actors (who weren't necessarily communists) during the McCarthy
> era, and
> he declared open season on unions during the air controllers strike.
> His
> words about tearing down the wall were empty rhetoric at a time when
> the economy
> behind the iron curtain was in a shambles. His voodoo economics
> (George Bush's
> description) created the biggest ddisparity between the rich and poor
> in
> decades. I am sorry he got Altzheimers (which was probably already
> affecting his
> judgement when he was president) and I am sorry he has died. But let's
> not get
> carried away.
>
> So if we must endure the quotes of the day, please don't flame people
> who
> respond to them, especially when they are political in nature.
>
> Sincerely,
> Frank Morelli
> Windscape
> NYC Opera, Principal Bassoon
> Orpheus Chamber Orch., (Co-Principal)
> Faculty:
> The Juilliard School
> Manhattan and Yale Schools of Music
> SUNY Stony Brook (beginning 9/04)
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> For personal help: email doublereed-owner@-----.org
> Doublereed is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org
>
>
----------------------------------
I'm Jackie Kovach and I approve this message.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
For personal help: email doublereed-owner@-----.org
Doublereed is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org