Word: ebbs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While the announcement indicates the direction of Rockefeller's political future, it also throws a temporary roadblock in the path of New York City's Mayor John Lindsay. At the moment, Lindsay's popularity in the city is at a low ebb, and the Governor's office would have been an attractive alternative should his citywide appeal continue to diminish. The. Rockefeller decision eliminates that alternative. Moreover, the mayor would probably have little chance of dislodging fellow Republican Charles E. Goodell from his Senate seat. What ever his prospects in the next two years, Lindsay...
Zorba--A great serious musical about living, loving, suffering and dying. John Kander and Fred Ebb wrote the immensely theatrical score; Joseph Stein did the book; and producer-director Harold Prince tied it all together with a finesse the likes of which have not been seen since Jerome Robbins' heyday. Herschel Bernardi and Maria Karnilova are the leads, with a strong assist from gutsy-voiced Lorraine Serabian, who heads a Greek chorus. At the IMPERIAL, W. 45th...
Regrettably Zorba's music does not always reach the level of Prince's craftsmanship. John Kander and Fred Ebb, the composer and lyricist respectively, have still failed to produce the great score that their Flora the Red Menace and Cabaret hinted was on the way. While many of the numbers have uncommonly fine melodies and all are at least a notch above average musically, sometimes they add little to dramatic values clearly evident in the book and staging. Neither of Zorba's solos tell us much we don't already know about the character at the time of the songs...
...only minor in an otherwise smooth start to the nine-week campaign. Beside the danger of overconfidence, not a very serious worry, Nixon's main course for nervousness was what politicians are now calling "the Wallace factor." While Nixonites say optimistically that Wallace's strength will soon ebb (see following story), they are coppering their bets, talking less now about a "Southern strategy" and more about a "big-state strategy." Even if Wallace does take Southern states that the Republicans had hitherto counted on, they reason, Nixon can still win handily by capturing just a couple...
ZORBA. Music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret). Directed by Harold Prince and starring Herschel Bernardi. The Greek, as in the movie...