Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cocktails and ceremonies." He had played a vital role in the negotiations that led to the Camp David accords last year, and he reacted angrily to being on the sidelines this time. Even if he had not resigned, Dayan would not have attended last week's meeting in London between Burg, Egyptian Premier Mustafa Khalil and U.S. Negotiator Robert Strauss, who is eager to get the autonomy talks back on track. At week's end Strauss reported that there had been some progress in the negotiations. The three parties agreed that elections in the West Bank and Gaza...
...next defense ministers' meeting in Brussels in December, it is feared, could perpetuate a serious military imbalance. Although Moscow loudly claims that the new NATO missiles would give the West a perilous "strategic advantage," NATO planners, as well as the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, estimate that they would at best achieve nuclear parity on the Continent. In conventional weapons, Moscow and its Warsaw Pact allies have a decided superiority...
...lifetime of composing in roughly three hours of listening time. (A further set, presumably comprising Webern's juvenilia and unpublished works, is planned for release at a later date.) The generally excellent performances, recorded over a period of 41/2 years under Pierre Boulez's direction, feature the London Symphony Orchestra and such guest artists as Violinist Isaac Stern, Pianist Charles Rosen and the late Gregor Piatigorsky. They supplant in every way the pioneering complete Webern recorded by Robert Craft in the 1950s, also on Columbia. The postman may never whistle Webern's melodies, as Webern predicted. Many...
...STOPPARD's DIRTY LINEN took its time getting to Boston from its London debut four years age, and it really wasn't worth the wait. A play about loose morals in high places may have been timely back then, but today Stoppard's collection of panty humor just seems a trifle, something the author tossed off between cigarettes. The play is already showing its age, and it has not weathered the trans-Atlantic voyage that well...
Though Dirty Linen finds Stoppard in poor form as a thinker, it has its funny moments--when he resists the temptation to use simple bawdy humor and recovers his quirky intellectual muse. In the original London production of the show, the company had a sense of proportion, and carefully understated the strangeness of Stoppard's dialogue to make it sound more believable. Thus the show's introductory sequence--in which two MPs arrive in the committee room and converse for several minutes using only foreign cliches--succeeded through the lack of self-consciousness on the stage...