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...building had long since become too cramped to contain the mushrooming Lambert operation, which in the past ten years has quintupled deposits to $203 million and added 26 branches. And the fire at last made possible the fulfillment of the baron's dream to build a modern-day palazzo that would not only rehouse the business but permit the family, reverting to custom, once again to live above its bank...
Last week the Times Sunday magazine ran another notable dissent-this time from an outsider, Henry Fairlie, British political analyst for the Spectator and the Daily Telegraph. Fairlie suggested that the U.S. is a benevolent, modern-day empire entrusted with peacekeeping in the world whether it likes the idea or not. "No empire," said Fairlie, "can contract and hope to survive. It must either be strenuously maintained or disintegrate. No empire, it follows, can selectively withdraw from its frontiers without inviting another empire to advance. America cannot abandon her responsibilities in any one part of the world without sacrificing them...
...Vatican Council, three cardinals and a patriarch of the church openly acknowledged the agonies of conscience that the church's traditional teaching creates for millions of married Catholics. Pope Paul acknowledged it, too, as he beseeched a papal commission of experts to help him formulate a modern-day principle of Christian marriage. Although he does not prophesy what Pope Paul may ultimately decide, Noonan cautiously concludes that there is no valid reason why the church cannot move with the times. Already it has come a long way toward acceptance of the principle that other personal values can take primacy...
Similar engagements were run at other battlefields, and in nearly every instance the "soldiers" were accompanied by modern-day camp followers-hucksters hawking vulgar souvenirs like beach towels imprinted with the Confederate flag, ashtrays embossed with the faces of Grant and Lee, cigarette lighters emblazoned with the words FORGET, HELL! and which played Dixie when opened...
...been staged in the U.S. since 1906. Written in 1823 as a florid showcase for the human voice, Semiramide is among the most fiendishly difficult of all operas to sing, a kind of vocal decathlon that requires a range and stylistic flexibility that few if any modern-day singers would or could tackle-that is, until Horne and Sutherland came along. But both their husbands decided that not even Rossini's musical scrollwork was adequate to display the full virtuosity of their two stars. Sutherland's husband Richard Bonynge, who conducted the Boston production, and Horne...