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...claustrophobic tumble of his brain, the world has a habit of collapsing into melancholy. Poor overread Albert warns himself about Keats' "egotistical sublime." His rich interior is forever ababble with Kant and Schopenhauer and his own obsessive, bewildered mutterings. A distant descendant of Leopold Bloom, cousin to the anguished intellectual comics of Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and even Woody Allen, Albert negotiates a shambling, rueful passage through his mid-40s. He has made Who's Who in America (a New York magazine writer and editor), but "lately he has the feeling that he is not so much pursuing...
...programming he has been criticized for catering, as one critic put it privately, to "the dowager taste, to the Main Line bluebloods who put up the dough." He himself concedes: "I should have done more new works-the late Stravinsky, Copland, the whole contemporary group." His predecessor, the flamboyant Leopold Stokowski, made a specialty of such works. But, says Ormandy, he got away with it because "the women were crazy about him. I am not so handsome...
...troubles have caused ugly social strains: citizens blame just about everybody in sight for the inflationary mess. "If anyone is at fault, it's the oil companies and other big business," says Detroit Housewife Eunice Leopold. A Beverly Hills surgical fitter who uses the professional name of Sally Ann sees the villains as "a combination of the unions and the farmers." Some even blame themselves. Says Oak Park, Mich., Housewife Marsha Avrushin: "People are to blame in part because they're greedy. They've got to have the bigger house, the extra car, the new refrigerator...
...told agents that after the fund raiser. Industrialist Leopold Wyler received guests at his home, where cocaine was used by what she described as "the White House people." Wyler, founder of TRE Corp., a Beverly Hills aerospace firm, was Carter's finance chairman in the 1976 California primary campaign, but has since joined a dump-Carter movement. Wyler said he had suspected that coke was used at his party, but insists that he "was very displeased with what seemed to be going on." He said he did not see Jordan or any of the other Carter associates using...
...DIED. Leopold Ludwig, 71, celebrated Generalmusikdirektor of the Hamburg Opera (1951-70), popular guest conductor of the Metropolitan and San Francisco operas, and versatile interpreter of contemporary opera as well as of Wagner, Strauss and Mahler; of a heart attack; in Luneburg, West Germany...