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...winds. The delicate lyricism he conjures up between oboe and English horn in the pastoral movement of Berlioz's Symphonic Fantastique would be welcome at a chamber music recital. Yet for all his romantic predilections, Solti expertly manipulates the arcane configurations of such moderns as Arnold Schoenberg and Elliott Carter...
About 1,200 Canadian Liberal Party workers and their wives went wild for the drummer who sat in with the Renaissance rock group at Ottawa's Château Laurier hotel. Flailing away at the snares, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau managed to make his own music. Said Jean-Guy Morin, the regular Renaissance drummer, "His left hand wasn't all that good, but then his right hand wasn't much either." After Trudeau had returned to the dance floor, Morin had another thought: "Maybe if I practice, I could be Prime Minister...
...Missy affair occupies only a small part of the book, however, and is really beside Elliott's point. He under took this reminiscence ostensibly be cause historians have so idealized Franklin and Eleanor. The cosmetic job has been such, Elliott says, that to the Roosevelt children the two emerge "as total strangers, not the father we loved and the mother we respected." Note the distinction: it is what passes for subtlety in Elliott Roosevelt's account...
...service of ultimate truth, then, Elliott tells of a sometimes cold, sometimes wretched relationship between his parents. That she took no pleasure in sex we know from other sources, including Joseph P. Lash's first volume. Elliott treats this as a great revelation and reminds readers about it perhaps a dozen times in his small book. Father, on the other hand, matured into a lusty chap whose interest and prowess were undiminished even by the aftereffects of polio. For the sake of skeptics, Elliott cites a medical report and even translates the Latin...
Self-sacrificing? Praiseworthy? Not as Son Elliott sees it. His mother was a poor housekeeper, he reports, and did not feed the children as well as Granny Sara did. Girl and woman, she was a dissembler. She let on that her father was simply a boozer, failing to mention that he also had a brain tumor. To ingratiate herself with the bigoted Sara, she feigned anti-Semitic notions. Much later, as a columnist, she had the nerve to "picture herself as a calm, contented woman," rather than as the "detached, harried, faultfinding wife and parent we knew." To Daughter Anna...