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...attempt by some of Egypt's foremost figures to overthrow President Anwar Sadat...
...Metropolitan Opera is first and foremost a singers' house, or what the managers on 57th Street like to call a bella voce theater. Its basic operating premise is that what counts is glorious singing. The only trouble is that no amount of fine vocalizing will make an opera like Otello or Wozzeck work without a steady, compelling baton on the podium. Yet it is difficult to get, let alone keep, good conductors in a house where singing stars have virtual veto power over their maestros. As a result, good conducting has been almost as elusive...
Restic is fully aware that he faces an overload of personnel at several positions, which lends itself to unhappy benchwarming. The foremost case of unhappiness last Fall involved quarterbacking, where Rod Foster and Eric Crone traded the job every five minutes for five games, and Rex Blankenship got left somewhere in the shadows...
Immediately Bok is faced with a covey of unresolved debates left over from the Pusey era. Foremost among the issues he must deal with are merger, curriculum reform, responsibility to the community, the sustenance of numerous experimental programs, and the question of equal admissions for women and increased Faculty representation...
...Foremost among these accomplishments, perhaps, was his relationship with the student body. Now, as President, he stresses again and again the need to maintain contact with students...