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Agnelli first proposed a merger in 1962, on the theory that Ferrari's illustrious reputation would add luster to Fiat's line of rather unglamorous work aday cars. Officials of Ford Motor...
Though the Staatsoper has regained much of its prewar luster, it is no longer the unquestioned queen of the world's opera houses. Acoustically, the theater itself is a marvel. Yet even Vienna's chauvinistic critics will concede that artistic standards at New York's Met and Milan's La Scala are at least as high. More exciting days, though, may be ahead. Next year Bernstein and the Viennese stage director Otto Schenk will collaborate on a new production of Fidelio. Also scheduled are expensively mounted revivals of Verdi's Macbeth, Gluck's Iphig...
Count on Dirksen. Obviously there is more to it than Ev's honeyed words convey. Under the Nixon Administration, Dirksen has lost some of his former power and luster. Nixon, 56, is a generation apart from Dirksen, 73, and the President favors younger congressional leaders. Nor does Nixon deal with individual legislative barons in the same intensely personal manner that Johnson did. What is he going to do about Dirksen? If the Senator keeps embarrassing him, he could be forced into a direct showdown. A President does not easily lose arguments with his own party. On the other hand...
From a critical standpoint, RCA's first Philadelphia records are a distinct disappointment. Recorded in the Philadelphia Academy of Music rather than in the ballroom used by Columbia, their sound is often dry and devoid of the luster for which the orchestra is famous. Charles Ives' Third Symphony and an LP of Grieg and Liszt concertos with Pianist Van Cliburn as soloist are the best of the lot. But the Chopin F-minor Concerto with Artur Rubinstein is heavy and graceless, and Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony lacks the bite and immediacy of a nine-year-old version...
...refuses to help any boy without a college degree, or a girl without a high school education. Once the initial screening is over, Ishizaka gets down to basics. "The luster of the eyes," he says, "often indicates the sexual abilities or inabilities of their owners." The shinier the eyes, the better, and the sprightliest girls of all, he asserts, "are those with eyes that are glistening but look at the same time somewhat wet." It is enough to make a girl want...