Word: lincoln
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...Arco on the stage. At the New York City Opera, Attila has taken the State Theater in a blaze of barbaric splendor: the composer's ninth opera, it stands revealed as an uneven but vivid work. Those with more traditional tastes in Verdi could go across Lincoln Center to the Metropolitan Opera, which last week introduced a handsome new production by Tanya Moiseiwitsch of La Traviata...
...evening was a bit of a puzzlement. Even though the Ravel was a success, why does a major opera house try to produce dance, a project like Parade, when the American Ballet Theater will occupy its very premises in two months' time and George Balanchine reigns just across Lincoln Center Plaza...
...amiable visage and quick humor that Ronald Reagan displays in public indicate a President unchanged by his first weeks of residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. For a closer look, TIME White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett spent most of Lincoln's Birthday at Reagan 's elbow, an exclusive vantage point that enabled him to watch the President at staff conferences, meetings with dignitaries, and ceremonial events. Eleven crowded hours revealed important differences between Reagan the candidate and Reagan the incumbent. Barrett's report...
After the appearance in the White House press room that he had promised Jim Brady, Reagan climbs into the black Lincoln Continental limousine for a ride to the Lincoln Memorial, where he pays homage to the first Republican President...
...paper. In Sacramento, Reagan relied heavily on one-page "minimemos" prepared by his staff. Now the memorandums are longer, and they conclude with a space for Reagan to indicate one of four options: approve, approve as amended, reject, no action. Some of the memos are thoroughly routine. On this Lincoln's Birthday Reagan promotes nine military general officers and approves a presidential proclamation on agriculture...