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...least career-hungry diva in opera, yet few singers have gone so far so fast. It was Rudolf Bing who plucked her out of the Met opera studio when she was 24 and gave her a contract. Three years later she surprised everybody by taking a season off to broaden her experience in Europe. There, in the spring of 1973, she scored a smashing success as Mozart's Cherubino in a new production of The Marriage of Figaro at the Paris Opera, with Sir Georg Solti conducting. Suddenly, she found herself an international star, and made a triumphant return...
...strange amalgam, this Oklahoma! It's an ambitious production that fiddles with and attempts to broaden the most familiar book in the musical theater, but then realizes it so sloppily that it's hard to remember that it isn't a high school stage. The freshness of the musical comes back at times when this peculiarly doctored version tries to remind its audience just why the play excited audiences who didn't know that musical performers weren't exclusively nocturnal creatures in evening clothes and taps. The conceivers of this Oklahoma! understand just how remarkable it was that a musical...
principles could not be compromised. Thomas's political strategy was often contradictory and destructive. Striving to broaden the party's base, he wooed both liberal Democrats on the right and communists on the left, wishfully and, as it turned out, rather naively viewing the latter as Socialists who had gone astray. In so doing, he alienated many of the Old Guard Socialists who accused him of undue willingness to compromise, while simultaneously providing an opening for the Trotskyites, who deliberately sabotaged their rival party on the Left. The liberals, on the other hand, regularly deserted the party to vote...
...nail fight with the conservatives. Michigan Governor William Milliken, who is organizing the skull session, believes that a takeover of the G.O.P.'s national machinery by the Reaganite right wing could only narrow the party's constituency; he argues that to survive nationally, the Republicans must broaden their base of support, as the party did in his state. Said he: "This is the reason we have won so many statewide races even as a minority party...
...Daley machine's Young Turks are urging the mayor to broaden his appeal by bringing into his inner circle popular downstate Democrats like Alan Dixon, who was elected secretary of state with 66% of the vote. Daley may not take this advice; in 21 years as mayor, he has relied almost exclusively on his own instincts. After all, observed a young Chicago alderman, "Daley is the organization." But the mayor fully realizes that times are changing, and as he left for Florida, his mind was clearly on the future. Said he: "You never look back. Tomorrow is a better...