Word: cassandras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cassandra tone typifies Simon's current role-and his questionable future in Government. Once supremely confident of his ability to deal with what he called the nation's "infinitely solvable" economic problems, he now sees himself as the sound-money "conscience" of the Government, repeating dire warnings that he knows few politicians want to hear. To a nation frightened by the deepest recession and highest unemployment since before Pearl Harbor, Simon insists that inflation is the greater long-run peril. To a Congress bent on cutting taxes and raising spending far more than the Administration wants, Simon endlessly...
Died. André Géraud, 92, Cassandra-like French columnist known as Pertinax (Latin for resolute); in Ségur-le-Château, France. In his daily columns in Echo de Paris, Pertinax in the 1930s warned about the danger of appeasing Hitler. When Nazi panzers crushed France in 1940, he escaped via Bordeaux on an English destroyer. In the U.S. during the war, he wrote his best-known work, The Gravediggers of France, a historical exposé of the men responsible for his country's fall...
...dire warnings of some street-corner Cassandra? No, just a list of coming attractions at U.S. movie theaters, as the industry enters a cycle of disaster. At least seven such films are scheduled for release before Christmas, and another six are in the planning stage. For the moviegoer, at least, the Apocalypse is at hand...
...thousands of young Americans, Bob Dylan is one of the very few personalities to emerge intact from the '60s whirlwind. A vindicated Cassandra who, in crystallizing once vague discontents, transformed dissent from an intellectual hobby to a public cause, Dylan sang about the turmoil of a generation. The generation listened. Now it remembers...
...Troyens' music is at once delicately concentrated and surcharged with an agitato inner flame. It is as short-winded as Mozart and as elongated as Wagner; rarely does Berlioz repeat himself, yet he spins out one duet (Cassandra and her lover Coroebus) for 15 minutes. Never a piker in such matters, Berlioz made heroic stage demands that included hunters on horseback, ships sailing out of a harbor, a stream that turns into a "roaring waterfall" and, of course, a large wooden horse...