Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fine one, with choreography that seems to belong in a far more lavish production, and excellent performances by the principals. The crew of the famous ship whirls and leaps in a comic dance, with several planned encores. The dancing is excellent, but at times choreographer Ruth Perrenod and director Lindsay Davis push a little too hard. While Ralph Rackstraw (Thomas Fuller) sings his love Madrigal a member of the chorus and a ballerina waft about the deck of the ship. The scene is syrupy enough without this heavy-handed instruction to the audience, "See, this is really just...
...than a dozen years of experience in law enforcement. Among his previous jobs, he served as an investigator of organized crime for Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, headed the Nixon Administration's National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, and directed New York Mayor John Lindsay's Criminal Justice Coordinating Council...
Beame was also helped by the fact that he is Jewish-and New York, the city with the world's largest Jewish population (1,836,000), surprisingly has never had a Jewish mayor. He promises to run a much more tidy ship than the flashy outgoing mayor John Lindsay. Steady as she goes suits New Yorkers' present mood...
...looks now like the new mayor's first few months in office will be placid. Two potentially bitter strikes, involving firemen and hospital workers, have been settled, and Beame will not inherit the bitterness left over from the conflict, which will trail Lindsay out of the office. The schools seem to be in better shape than they have been in a number of years, and local politicians have already convinced the public that the state is the cause of an imminent increase in subway fares. The subway crisis provides Beame with a popular position on a vital issue which...
Beame's greatest public relations asset now is that he was elected to be himself rather than the personification of some Kennedy or Lindsay myth. He will have an easier time coping with the slow and incremental nature of urban problems because he is not expected to come up with dramatic solutions...