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...first-night audience in Venice's Theater of St. John and St. Paul had the tang of vintage Tennessee Williams. It was rife with adultery and assassination, seduction and suicide, torture and a touch of transvestism. But the première took place 321 years ago, the format was operatic, and its author was the revered "father of modern opera" himself, Claudio Monteverdi...
...Wallace, who had refused to debate any Harvard faculty member on the grounds that none was "of the same national stature" as himself, reportedly had no objections to the proposed television format...
...complained that she had been "sandwiched" between "three forty-five minute speakers. "After all," she said, "I was the main speaker." The format of the Law Forum is such that the main address is followed by extensive comments from several panel members...
...duplicate the U.N. talks by per sonal visits to all the capitals of the statesmen he was seeing would have re quired a three-month, globe-girdling tour. And though the schedule was jampacked, permitting never more than an hour per visit, it was the perfect format for Rusk, who is at his best in private diplomatic conversation. Rusk relied on his encyclopedic knowledge of world af fairs, lots of coffee, an occasional drink of Scotch, and two packs of Chester fields a day to get him through the polyglot, problem-laden week...
Wallace, however, has specifically objected to debates at other universities and may refuse to appear with Howe, since the proposed format is sill subject to his approval...