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...Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder) is a portion of a grandiose, uncompleted oratorio. A chorus of souls in limbo shuffles about the stage, awaiting reincarnation. Their doubts and frustrations are chastened by the Archangel Gabriel, effectively sung by Bass-Baritone William Dooley. The music, first sketched around World War I and completed later, has more lateromantic intelligibility than Erwartung, but it is so somber and static that one eventually wants to cry out with the chorus: "Is it really to go on like this forever?" Yet there is a moving finale. Soprano Janet Northway, as a soul who is dying...
...almost by default that the Republicans ended up with what many of them most wanted: a ticket that can be accepted by a broad spectrum, from North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms on the right to New York Senator Jacob Javits on the left. Bush's views on most issues are compatible with Reagan's, yet Bush has a more moderate image than that of the Californian. As a two-term Congressman and former head of the CIA, Bush also brings the ticket much needed experience in Washington, which polls indicate is a major shortcoming for Reagan in the eyes...
...life is another matter. He talks about "comedic license," but whether he is doing a shotgun discourse on marriage or about growing up Jewish and poor in a section of New York City that is well-off and Waspy, he seems to be drawing from deep roots. Rodney was Jacob Cohen when the neighborhood kids had names "like Marianne and Biff." When they were on the tennis courts, he was delivering groceries. He started writing gags when he was 15. At 19 he was playing the Catskills for $12 a week...
That tactic enabled middle-of-the-road Republicans to join in. Announced New York's Jacob Javits, who had opposed Kemp-Roth: "I can go along." Added Illinois' Chuck Percy, who had taken little part in the negotiations: "We have jointly worked out a tax program." Gloated Conable: "This all happened while Jimmy Carter was in Portugal. It shows how relevant...
...DIED. Jacob Laib Talmon, 64, Israeli professor of history and international authority on totalitarianism; of a heart attack; in Jerusalem. A brilliant lecturer at Jerusalem's Hebrew University since 1949, he was the author of several magisterial books, notably The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy, that traced the distortions of the democratic idea by the belief in a "popular will." Talmon recently sparked a debate in Israel when he attacked Prime Minister Menachem Begin's autonomy policy in the occupied West Bank and Gaza as "an archaic concept, a trick to shut the Gentile's mouth...