Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tree of Sound. The Boston Symphony has hit upon a likely solution. As in every orchestra, many of the Boston musicians have tried to balance their heavy symphonic diet with doses of chamber music, slipping off like addicts in need of a fix to play where and however they can. The progressive Boston management decided that rather than discourage the practice, as some orchestras have done, it would cultivate it. The result is the Boston Symphony Chamber Players ("The Boschaps"), organized a year ago and made up of the orchestra's first-desk players. It is the first such...
...summer visitors used to be packed like subway straphangers, is so worried about falling attendance that it has shelled out $150,000 to restore the old allure. Where Murder Inc. once made lethal lead pay big dividends, the two-bit Gallo and Profaci mobs cannot even afford to fix the cops. Tough Tony Anastasio, the stevedore Caesar who ruled the waterfront for a generation before he died in 1963, has been succeeded by a Ciceronic son-in-law, Brooklyn College Graduate Anthony-never Tony-Scotto...
...that he threatened to resign. He also complained to U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, with whom he has a tie of near-filial rapport, that he resented having to spend so much time with politicians and newsmen. Lodge pointed out that Lyndon Johnson is in much the same fix; since then, Ky has noticeably relaxed about the inevitable public duties of his job. And for all his indiscretions and growing pains, Ky has worked earnestly and hard as Premier, battling conditions that were often beyond his control. "Indeed," says one member of his staff, "if Ky weren...
...reveled in their genius for getting themselves into impossible predicaments, complicating the predicaments beyond belief, and then scrambling out of them at the last possible second not only unscathed but refreshed. They are the masters of the fearless retreat, the intransigent com promise, the edged hedge and the artful fix. No belief is so rigid that it cannot be reversed, no enemy so hated that he cannot be embraced. Revolutions are accomplished by collect telegram, prosperity by printing more money, and politics is riding a bandwagon. Absolutely nothing in Brazil is absolute. As a Brazilian Congressman once announced: "My party...
Temporary Compromise. That, of course, put Castello Branco in a fix. He had already declared himself out of the running, and so he began to look around for a presidential candidate who would continue the economic reforms that Costa e Silva resists. Now there was a new twist that only a Brazilian could properly savor: the President himself recruiting a candidate to run against his own government party. Not only that, but since Castello Branco has already decreed that the President is to be elected by Congress instead of by popular vote, and since Castello Branco controls Congress, he could...