Word: goodnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prevent him from remaining a catcher full time, but he said that he wanted to continue playing, mostly because of his son Michael, 4. "I want to play long enough for him to understand and appreciate what I have accomplished," he said. "If I have three or four more good years, I might have the kind of statistics that could get me in the Hall of Fame...
...mordantly conveys the opera's central drama of worldly power and rationality being ravaged by the primal erotic instinct. Among other solid supporting performances, Bass-Baritone Andrew Foldi is funny and touching as Schigolch, the old man who may be Lulu's father and who is as good a key as any to Berg's newly retrieved third act. Schigolch is the none too comforting image of what is left after passion and violence are spent: a scrabbling, wheezy, lecherous rag bag of a survivor...
...decades the Los Angeles Times was little more than the instrument with which the Chandler family, its sole owners since 1886, scooped out a financial and social empire in Southern California. Real estate deals dictated editorial policy, and news columns seldom threatened the good names and growing fortunes of local business interests. Humorist S.J. Perelman once wrote of a cross-country train trip: "I asked the porter to get me a newspaper and unfortunately the poor man, hard of hearing, brought me the Los Angeles Times...
Chandler generally improves what his firm buys. At the Dallas Times Herald, for example, the editorial budget has been doubled and news columns increased by 30% since Times Mirror took over in 1969. Says David Laventhol, publisher of Long Island's Newsday, acquired in 1970: "Chandler has a good sense of the need for local autonomy...
Times staffers have good reason to like Chandler; during his years as publisher, the Times has grown from a paper with only one foreign correspondent to one with 19 overseas bureaus and eleven in the U.S. The once tiny Washington office is now staffed by 26 correspondents, one of the largest crews in the capital...