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Died. The Rev. Robert J. McCracken, 68, minister of Manhattan's interdenominational Riverside Church for 21 years; while on a world cruise; near Bangkok. A wry, Scots-born Baptist, McCracken succeeded the nationally famous radio preacher, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, at Riverside in 1946. In understated but eloquent sermons, he was an ardent advocate of both ecumenism and civil rights...
...sing, but well enough. As Carmen, her face is a catty catalogue of all the baser emotions. Her hands are a dithyrambic dialogue, as when she plays the castanets with her arms around Jose's neck (a genuine feat, considering the size of Tenor James McCracken). Horne may not so much dance as insinuate dance, and may need a gallant helping hand in order to hop on a chair at the end of her Gypsy Song, but she nonetheless succeeds in making Carmen a woman of real flesh and blood-earthy, unpredictable, infuriating, irresistible...
...McCracken relies too much on falsetto in soft, high passages, and Baritone Tom Krause (Escamillo) moves more like a waiter than a bullfighter; yet both contribute to the spirit of the show. The biggest surprise in the cast is the Micaela of Soprano Adriana Maliponte - vocally ravishing, physically beguiling - who, it is to be hoped, will be heard soon as Manon or Mimi...
...only high school French got a better sense of the plot. Bernstein looked at the score as though he had never conducted it before -which he had not-and came up with a broad, slow but crackingly taut performance that underlined Carmen's sense of doom. "Perhaps," says McCracken, "the sense of tragedy was even more influenced by the death of Mr. Gentele. The real tragedy influenced everyone's approach." ∎William Bender...
...weeks ago, President Nixon implied that controls will remain at least until the end of this year and perhaps longer. Beyond that, the U.S. will probably have some looser form of Government wage-and-price supervision more or less indefinitely. At his farewell press conference in December, Paul McCracken, the President's outgoing Chief Economic Adviser, said that the Government may have to take steps to moderate prices "for a long time to come, even after Phase II has done its thing...