Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OPERA Company runs into occasional problems. John Davies doesn't really have the voice for Bartolo's lowest notes. Diana Hoagland more than rises to the occasion of the Countess's big third-act aria, but some of her earlier attempts at acting seem a good bit closer to Lucia's madness than Rosina's anger. Sunday night's orchestra didn't seem to approve of them, either--the strings swung briefly out of tune for the introduction to her first aria, something that didn't happen again until the whole orchestra--previously more than competent--began to fall apart...
...rather should be directed by a committee composed of Faculty members from the established departments. With the reduction of the number of tenured faculty promised the department, with the separation of the DuBois Institute from the department and with the imposition of joint appointments, the conservatives have moved ever closer to a realization of their original proposal. A 1973 Faculty vote that barely reaffirmed the continuation of Afro-American studies as a department is the only thing standing between the conservatives in the Faculty and the complete success of this white-supremacist project. It does not require a conspiracy theory...
Where Spender is in his element, Love-Hate Relations is a fascinating, highly readable study of considerable depth. There may be times when he oversimplifies for no other reason than the sake of style. As a result, some superficially slick, at first appealing statements turn out, upon closer examination, to hold very little truth. "The Miller of Tropic of Cancer is a Brooklyn Whitman gone to Paris" --on the surface it is an interesting statement; but beyond that, it seems more facetious than true. If Spender falls into this here, it certainly is not the first time; nor does...
...families where the politician is the wife, the husband's role is usually closer to that of the husband in any two-career family than to that of the stereotypical political wife. But generalizations about political husbands are risky -there are so few of them. Of 535 members of Congress, only 16 are women; all are in the House, and only ten are married. There are no women Governors, although Connecticut Congresswoman Ella Grasso, 55, hopes to change that in November...
...says are sometimes so divorced from reality. A defense of the CIA on the grounds that Popular Unity tried to suppress political opposition is easier to disprove than a denial that the CIA intervened, so it has less serious consequences, but its resemblance to the truth is hardly closer. Too many of Ford's basic assumptions--that any government friendly to his government deserves and indeed has its people's support, for instance, or that what's good for General Motors is good for the world--are lies. However scrupulously honest Ford's reasoning from such premises, he still comes...