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Farm Bill. In his budget-cutting fervor, Reagan has proposed slashing or eliminating entirely a bale of venerable farm-aid programs. For example, he proposes moderating commodity price supports for most farm products, abolishing some special programs like peanut acreage allotments, and pulling the plug on the Rural Electrification Administration. As chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Jesse Helms of North Carolina has junked the Administration's farm bill in favor of his own, more expensive version; the House Agriculture Committee, meanwhile, has endorsed a bill that, complains a White House aide, "totally disregards what Reagan wanted." The Administration...
What he presented to the patrons after an unprecedented 13 weeks of rehearsal last fall and a 17-week national tour was his new star: the corps de ballet. Its members are younger, more attractive, tirelessly drilled. On opening night they danced with unity, grace and fervor. Baryshnikov revived one of the gala ballets, Frederick Ashton's feather-light Les Rendezvous, just to show off the corps. He has high hopes for these girls in white tulle and pink ribbons and their cavaliers...
...beginning, he substitutes the Cause for God: "In that way I could accept everything without reservation or hesitation. . . the Party held the truth and the keys to the future." When he marches with militant workers, he suddenly feels the weight of phylacteries in his knapsack, but his revolutionary fervor is seldom leavened by thought. It takes a phosphorescent, spectral figure to rekindle any moral sense. David Aboulesia, who mysteriously appears whenever pain grows too intense to bear, warns him, "If you believe you must forsake your brothers in order to save mankind, you will save nobody, you will not even...
Harrison's music, though dubbed incidental by the program, provides many of the most stirring moments in the play. His four songs crystalize the revolutionary fire and religious fervor that the play all too often lacks. At times the music also reveals the exuberance of the cast, playing up the vitality that is the show's strongest asset...
...chronicles begins, Powell, 28, is about to marry Violet Pakenham, 22. An opportunity, surely, for a passing brushfire of emotion, recollectec in tranquillity? Not at all. Whatever might be hot or sweet is buried in the cool shade of 13 pages devoted to Violet's family tree. Fervor, by Powell's standards is reserved for Siamese cats and the young couple's cook, a Mrs. Clara Warville, who in a passage as heartfelt as any in the book, is recalled as "an admirable exponent of the art at its simple English best...