Word: fortnights
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...Britten's lifelong companion musically as well as personally. It is the latest in an imperiled series of major artistic collaborations. Britten, 59, recovering from open-heart surgery, was unable to attend rehearsals or take his customary place at the podium for the opera's premiere a fortnight ago. Steuart Bedford, an Aldeburgh regular, conducted in Britten's stead...
...kidnapings at the rate of one every 72 hours since the first of the year. Last month two Ford Motor Co. of Argentina employees were wounded by ERP gunmen, and under threat of further violence. Ford agreed to give $1,000,000 to hospitals and the poor. Within a fortnight of Perón's second homecoming, guerrillas kidnaped a West German clothing manufacturer, the American head of Firestone of Argentina, and a British banker. A $10 million ransom for the three has been demanded. One Buenos Aires businessman groaned about the banker, for whom Peronist guerrillas are asking...
Despite all the violence-another 14 people killed in the past fortnight-the mood of Ulster seems not to be one of despair. Says Mrs. Maureen McClure, an official Unionist candidate in North Down: "Most people today are exhausted by the carnage and destruction." Adds Paddy Devlin of the S.D.L.P.: "A man could say logically 'Oh, Jesus, it's not going to work.' But to my mind, the face of politics will never be the same after this election. Everybody is tired and wants peace. I think we're heading for better times. I feel...
...After a fortnight at the brink of civil war, Lebanon last week appeared to be at the brink of peace, at least for a time. After several days of furious negotiations, the Lebanese government and the Palestinian guerrillas announced that they had reached "identical viewpoints" on how to settle the bloody, brutal conflict that left more than 350 dead and 700 wounded...
...interesting that in the past fortnight, some of the most anguished comments about "preserving the presidency" have come from liberal Democrats profoundly unsympathetic to Richard Nixon the man but devout believers in the near mystical view of the presidency. They lament "the crippling of the presidency," a "collapse" of the American form of government, etc., etc. Nonsense. The presidency was never meant to be so majestic that it could not accommodate lapses of judgment or even ethics...