Word: lincoln
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...then, even bother with Vespri? Why should the Metropolitan Opera, currently some $3,000,000 in debt, go to the time, trouble and expense of mounting the opera for the first time in its 90-year history? Fair questions, which were not entirely answered by the premiere performance at Lincoln Center last week. Yet the Met's brief for Vespri contains any number of good points. Conductor James Levine and Stage Director John Dexter eliminated a half-hour's worth of ballet (wisely, considering the Met's declivity for dance) and edited the work down to three...
According to Evelyn Lincoln, Kennedy's personal secretary, the note was written by the president on the day Kennedy delivered his first public address on the crisis...
...Marlowe. He is the incorruptible core, surrounded by characters who vary only in the degree of their rottenness. Marlowe's may seem to be a naive view of the world, to be sure: His old-fashioned standards are as outdated in today's Los Angeles as his 1948 Lincoln. But the anachronism of Marlowe--the caring man in a Disneyland of indifference--is strangely appealing...
...sometimes simultaneously-a sports reporter for the New York Times, army officer, professor and alumni secretary for his alma mater, Columbia University, Lovejoy also wrote prep-school and career and vocational-school guides. First published in 1940 with the backing of Lovejoy's college classmate, Publisher M. Lincoln Schuster, the College Guide has remained a Simon & Schuster bestseller through twelve revisions...
...performance of a star's star, while Durning acts with a subtlety, daring and solidity that he has not achieved before, even in That Championship Season. Whatever qualms some drama critics have expressed about Joseph Papp's play choices, his first season at the helm of the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater has brought a superior caliber of acting such as was never seen or even remotely dreamt of there in past years...