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Marin City, nestled in a wooded hollow the size of Monaco, sounds like a developer's dream. Only 20 minutes from San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge, the community (pop. 1,600) is bestirred by cool coastal breezes and blessed with one of America's most entrancing views-the shimmering, misty Bay. Yet despite its setting, Marin City is as profoundly troubled a community as Watts or Harlem...
...sure sign of primaveral delirium, the sighting touched off pandemic reports of preternatural phenomena across the U.S. Manner's drop-in was followed by a shimmering object that settled obligingly on a marshy Michigan hollow in full view of 87 Hillsdale Col lege coeds and a county civil-defense director. Ann Arbor's Democratic Congressman Weston E. Vivian called for a Defense Department investigation of the unearthly goings-on. Michigan's Gerald Ford, House Republican leader, suggested a congressional inquiry. Air Force investigators donned hip boots to slog through Michigan marshland...
...troublesome score and libretto of Trouble in Tahiti isn't worth the trouble. Leonard Bernstein's pretentiously modern one-act opera is an attack on hollow suburbia. Even in 1952, when it was written, that was a boringly standard iconoclasm. The music is generally wearisome, the libretto, also written by Bernstein, generally clumsy...
...have to build." He sees the committee programs as a necessary first step before Young Dems puts forward any program on a national level. "The first stage has got to be production here, because this is where we're all living for four years--anything else is just a hollow phrase unless you can say this is what we're doing here, where...
...almost cracks with fear. The one female in the production, Sandra Robbins, plays both Belshazzar's queen and the angel. Her soprano voice rings clearly and powerfully over the male voices, and projects almost enough femininity to balance with the rest of the cast. The chorus in solemn, hollow, and always in tune on the difficult modal chants. The small group of instruments is just wispy and scratchy enough to produce a sweetly archaic tone. And the percussion, consisting of a bell, tambourine, triangle, and drum, lends a lilting, ingenuous tone to the music as a whole...