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Anticipating the nation's 200th anniversary, which will come at the end of Nixon's term, the Kennedy Center roof terrace will be done up in an 18th century decor. Hostesses wearing hoopskirted American Revolution-era costumes will serve the crowds from the concerts. After the Inauguration, more than 30,000, at a cost of $80 per couple, will crowd into the five Inaugural balls. Ballgoers will pay $1.50 for their drinks while waiting for the President and the First Lady to make their appearance at each. Besides receiving the plastic drink tumblers emblazoned with the Inaugural seal...
...Yale, and now serves as a music reviewer for New York's Village Voice. "People were always dragging me to the opera," he recalls, "and I always had guilt feelings about not liking it. Also, I wondered what all those singers were really thinking about during their 200th-or-so performance of the same piece...
...result (not necessarily bad) is that the U.S. will celebrate its 200th birthday in a myriad of small celebrations in towns, cities and national parks across the land...
...200th anniversary of the birth of the United States of America is still four years away, but already the celebrations and national self-inspections are beginning-cultural as well as political. Last week in Washington, one of the first and most promising took form on the stage of the Kennedy Center's Concert Hall: a panoramic view of the U.S.'s musical past. The performers were the Paul Hill Chorale, a lively fixture on the capital scene. Called The Music Has Always Been There, their program was both a sonic trip into bygone times and an entrancing prelude...
...proposal to draft, sign, and display The Declaration of 1976, to place it before the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission for staff study and a plan for possible implementation. This commission was created by Congress in 1966 (Public Law 89-49) to plan and coordinate events marking our 200th anniversary...