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...debut, again in Aïda, without a single stage rehearsal. "After all," she says, "what's the problem? The Nile can only be upstage." The crowd shouted "Brava Leonessa!" Then, for the new opera house at the Salzburg Festival last summer, Von Karajan "had this big, fat, crackpot idea of my doing Donna Anna." Leontyne did it, and followed it by opening the Berlin Festival as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic. By then the Met's Rudolf Bing had signed her, and that was "the ultimate." Says Leontyne, looking back: "It was all so fast. My mind...
...result has been a waning of controversy among economists. Today, says Kenneth Arrow, "you have to find a real crackpot to get an economist who doesn't accept the principle of Government intervention in the business cycle...
...Some Republicans are convinced that showing the Houston film in such heavily Catholic areas as New York, Seattle and San Francisco is a deliberate effort to keep the issue bubbling. To which the Kennedy forces answer that, even though the G.O.P. is not exploiting the issue, all kinds of crackpot mail against a Catholic President are flooding mailboxes, particularly in the South and the border states...
...religion] issue and a maximum amount of bad feeling." The News-Sentinel did net take this stand. It was the Knoxville Journal which banned letters on religion. The News-Sentinel bans them other times but thinks they're pertinent in this campaign and uses them, eliminating, of course, crackpot, false, unreasonable and rash assertions...
...tide is definitely turning," said the frail old man. "My crackpot idea is becoming the idea that will save America from economic serfdom and will bring happiness and prosperity." The time was 1937, and Dr. Francis E. Townsend was almost right: his Townsend Plan, a Depression-born pension panacea, had caught the fancy of legions of elderly Americans. At flood tide, more than 4,000,000 members in 10,000 Townsend clubs gave the lanky, mesmeric country doctor immense political power, and their contributions, in a river of nickels and dimes, flowed in at the rate...