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Similarly, TIME'S tone was flip and irreverent, but the magazine combined with this a certain solemnity about American???and Western?values. These included self-reliance, success and salvation through progress. TIME certainly did not accept T.S. Eliot's metaphor for modern civilization: a review of The Waste Land in the first issue suggested that the poem might be a hoax...
...Opera's problems, however, Sills will inherit a healthy, adventurous tradition. Under Rudel, the company staged early operas like Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea and such rarities as Janacek's The Mahropou-los Affair and Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d 'Or. It has nurtured young singers, mostly American???including, on their way up. Sills, Sherrill Milnes, Donald Gramm and Placido Domingo. "Rudel did interesting operas and developed interesting singers," says Anthony Bliss, executive director of the Met. "It is no mean achievement...
...bought first-class tickets on Pan American's Flight 93, a 747. As Clipper 93 taxied toward its takeoff position, ground controllers?whom El Al had alerted about the attempted hijacking of its craft and about the suspicious passengers it had bumped off its flight and onto Pan American???radioed a warning to Captain Jack Priddy. He halted the 747 and walked through the passenger compartment looking for the pair. When he finally found them, they readily agreed to be frisked on the spot. "They seemed like nice fellas," says Priddy. "I'm no professional, but I went over their...
...move quickly into any areas where U.S. power and prestige may recede. They not only plan to project a more tangible Russian influence in the underdeveloped world but also, by using their merchant fleet, to get a strong hold on the raw materials vital to Soviet?and often to American???industry. Ultimately, though, the Russian navy's biggest threat is a military one. Its offensive strategy not only zeroes submarine-carried nuclear missiles in on U.S. cities, but aims to isolate North America from Europe and Asia in case...
...observe in the Soviet Union . . . a worship of everything American???that is to say of the land of the dollar, the most consistent capitalist country. . . . How do you explain this...