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...have been taken by many observers as a series of ominous portents. Wolfgang's staging of Lohengrin last month, his first effort since his brother's death, departed markedly from Wieland's stylization and simplification and seemed to echo the old conservatism in stead. The bridal chamber was done up like a Moorish gazebo. Singers were allowed to return to the old style of explicit gesticulation and heavy underlining of points in the text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Clouds over Valhalla | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...effect on the author's pocketbook. Philadelphian Jacqueline Susann, an advocate of brotherly, sisterly, fatherly, motherly, and potato love, has made it to "the top of Mount Everest" as her dolls have not. Writing in an orange, red, and yellow den which she wittily calls "the chamber of horrors," the former acrtess and five-time winner of the Best-Dressed TV Star award has stirred up a honeypot and attracted all the bees from the shyest bus driver to 20th-Century...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: A Secretary's Schmaltz | 8/22/1967 | See Source »

...inserted strong antiriot measures into the President's anti-crime bill before sending it on to the Senate. (Other changes would give the states nearly total control over how federal anti-crime grants would be spent, sharply curtailing the supervisory role of the Attorney General.) In the upper chamber, predicted Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, the measure, which gives $75 million to local police in the first year, will be combined with the House-passed antiriot bill, which makes it a crime to cross state lines to foment riots. The result, promised Dirksen, "will be a humdinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Uneasy Calm | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...effort. An organization called New Detroit representing all sectors of the community, was formed to assist the city's restoration. The National Urban Coalition, representing industry, labor, local government, churches and civil rights groups, organized and issued an ambitious manifesto for reform. In city halls, state houses, and chamber of commerce offices across the country, officials and businessmen mobilized to provide jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cities: What Next? | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...there's a fit: John Braden's lights and set start playing discotheque games and some refugees from a mine troupe start fooling around on the White House lawn, carrying ghosts on poles and setting off sparklers. Then these people pack up and we're back to chamber drama...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: White House Happening | 8/8/1967 | See Source »

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