Word: ets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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International Performance. The acclaimed PBS series presents Ravel's opera ballet "L'Enfant et les Sortileges." CH. 2, 9 p.m. Color...
...worried about the days; it is only the nights," Henry Kissinger told Hollywood Columnist Joyce Haber. According to her, that is why Henry the K. likes to spend evenings in the company of Jill St. John, Mario Thomas, Raquel Welch, Samantha Eggar, Sally Kellerman, et al. What bothers Kissinger is the ladies' motivations. "Is there no end to my naiveté?" he asked after discovering that one starlet was boasting about her dates with him. "I forget that they are actresses. They are only attracted to my power-but what happens when that power ends? They...
...Hooray for "The State of Union" [Oct. 9]! Since World War II, America's liberal Protestant seminaries have been ignoring parish churches and their pastoral needs. Conservative evangelical seminaries have expanded to train the parish ministers that Union, Yale, Chicago, Harvard, et al., refuse to supply. Money for these institutions is therefore predictably drying up. And the teachers' "barrage of debunking and skepticism," aimed at students who already are startled when someone inquires, "Don't we begin with a prayer?", is completing the ruination of liberal Protestantism...
...could not help but sigh with relief after reading David Ignatius's inspirational article of October 19, 1972, on the need for University Democracy. I was beginning to worry that Ignatius et al would go through a whole semester without once raising an issue which would hit students in the guts, get them out of the libraries, and back up against Mass Hall...
WHEN MR. MEHTA returned to the podium for the Ravel, he seemed to be in better spirits than during the opening work. Smiling, and with more confidence, he conducted an exquisite performance of Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2, the second of the two orchestral suites that were drawn from Ravel's complete ballet. While conducting, Mehta became the personification of the music--his arms were fluid and graceful during the light, airy passages in the opening of the Ravel, and then became tense and stiff when the music demanded rhythmically exact cues to the orchestral players. And Mr. Mehta...