[lbo-talk] They don't write headlines like this any more

[John Adams]

Okay, actually, they do, but still: 

Dika Newlin, 82, Punk-Rock Schoenberg Expert, Dies

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/28/arts/music/28newlin.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

"Who but Dr. Newlin could have taken the text Schoenberg used for the fourth movement of his second string quartet to use as punk lyrics for “Alien Baby”?"

How's this: They don't make academics like this any more? Oh, wait...