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Long considered unstageworthy, they are now turning up in the theater as well. La Vera Costanza (True Constancy) was given its American premiere in 1967 in Cleveland; L'incontro Improvviso (The Unforeseen Encounter), an "abduction" opera set in Cairo, was performed in concert version by Pierre Boulez and the New York Philharmonic in 1973. Armida, an opera seria set during the Crusades, was produced in New Hampshire last summer with the action updated to the Viet Nam War. Just a fortnight ago another major work, Orlando Paladino, was staged in Philadelphia...
Slightly surprised by their success, exultant women's leaders held a victory press conference at the New York Statler Hotel. Midge Costanza, who in 1978 was forced out of office as Jimmy Carter's liaison to women's groups and minorities because she was too outspoken, deftly turned a Carter line (borrowed from John F. Kennedy) into a barb...
Nonetheless, he needs to repair his relations with feminist activists, who are unhappy over the resignation of Midge Costanza from the White House staff and the firing of Bella Abzug from a presidential advisory commission. So Carter turned out White House womanpower in full force: Lady Bird Johnson took the podium, as did Lynda Johnson Robb, and Amy Carter tripped in holding the President's granddaughter, ten-month-old Sarah Carter, in her arms. Rosalynn, whose appearances are being curtailed be cause she has seemed too assertive, nonetheless gave a warm welcome: ''The White House belongs...
...Attorney Weddington worked to reform the state's sexual abuse laws and equalize commercial credit requirements for women. In 1973, at the age of 28, she won the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed a woman's right to choose to have an abortion. Since Weddington replaced Midge Costanza last November, Carter has increased the number of women in top Administration spots; former Attorney General Griffin Bell raised female federal judgeships from 6% to 17%. "My purpose is to put women into the mainstream of life," says Weddington, which is precisely where...
...Midge Costanza, feminist and ex-White House aide, on the British election: "I myself am a liberal, and Margaret Thatcher is conservative. But we've all been run by men whose philosophy we don't agree with. Why not a woman...