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...started when Republican Robert Dornan of California, in a speech before a conservative group, called New York Democrat Thomas Downey "a draft-dodging wimp." Downey heard about it and a couple of days later, as Dornan was walking out of the House chamber, put a hand on the Californian's arm to prevent him from leaving. Asked Downey: "Did you say those things about me?" Dornan wheeled around. "Yes. So what?" Moments later, Dornan grabbed the babyfaced New Yorker by the collar and tie, pulled him close and warned, "Stay out of my face, now and forever...
This year's opera is "The Turn of the Screw" by Benjamin Britten, a 20th century chamber opera based on the eponymous Henry James novella. While the audience may sense the fragrance of lemon-sole with breadcrumbs in the Lowell production--probably not an olfactory effect Britten originally called for--"Turn of the Screw" is spatially well-suited to the cramped conditions of the Lowell House dining hall, says Bennett...
Bennett adds that he chose a chamber opera as this year's production because it has "fewer characters and a smaller orchestra that work better in the space of the dining hall." Also, he says, Lowell hasn't put on a 20th century opera for several years...
DIED. Efrem Zimbalist, 94, Russian-born violinist of high technical polish and emotional understatement, a considerable composer of songs and chamber music and a musical administrator and teacher who for 27 years, until 1968, headed Philadelphia's Curtis Institute; in Reno. He was the father and grandfather, respectively, of TV Actors Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Stephanie Zimbalist...
...presupposed that President Kennedy's assassin was not murdered by Jack Ruby, then argued the case that Kennedy was slain by a conspiracy. CBS's Kill Me If You Can played down the crimes of Sex Offender Caryl Chessman and dwelt on his slow, gruesome execution in the gas chamber for the explicit purpose of arousing public sentiment against capital punishment. NBC's Kennedy depicted the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as a scheming bureaucratic thug, and the same network's King, also by Abby Mann, suggested that the black civil rights leader was virtually a puppet of white...