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Stokes's energy and good taste in refusing to turn the campaign into a racist contest earned him influential support from the city's business community and the endorsement of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He was helped, too, by Locher's pallid campaign and mediocre six-year record as mayor. Cleveland's afternoon newspaper, the Press, refused to support Locher as it had in previous elections; while expressing a mild preference for Dark Horse Frank P. Celeste (who ended up with only 4.1% of the vote), the Press declared Stokes an acceptable alternative...
Promise & Peril. It is because artists are convinced that the great civic monuments of the future will not be pallid mitations of Greek, Gothic or Renaissance sculpture that they are now boldy taking their huge, industrially produced works to the public. It is a moment dizzying with promise and fraught with peril. For novelty quickly washes away, and bigness for its own »ake becomes merely ponderous. The reason why so much critical attention and acclaim is focused on Smith's work at the present is that, even in mock-up t has the quality of permanence. His .culptures...
...great poetry into sentimental salon entertainment. Furthermore, the performance was sadly deficient in the French accent, both in words and music. Franco Corelli nearly strangled on every attempt to produce the pure Gallic B-flat, while all of Soprano Mirella Freni's undeniable charm was defeated by the pallid music she was asked to sing. New Director Paul-Emile Deiber grouped his singers around Rolf Gerard's workaday sets in a series of static tableaux that had little to do with Shakespeare, Gounod, or anything in that vast area in between...
...California's Ronald Reagan was obviously their new political sex symbol. As Reagan entered the cavernous Omaha Sports Arena for the final night's speechmaking, applause quickly turned into a fevered five-minute chant of "We want Reagan! We want Reagan!" The Governor's speech, a pallid recitation of his administration's accomplishments contrasted with the "non-accomplishments" of the Johnson Administration, was interrupted more than 20 times for further applause, and as he left the hall, the delegates resumed their chant: "We want Reagan! We want Reagan...
Though Levy, 30, tried vainly in the 13-day trial to excuse his rebellious conduct as a matter of principle, the pallid, intense Brooklyn dermatologist appeared to be more often stricken by confusion than conscience. Though claiming that he refused to teach Special Forces aidmen simple skin-disease remedies because he believed they would commit war crimes in Viet Nam, he was unable to support the charge. In a switch of tactics, his attorneys last week argued that to teach the Green Berets medical skills would have violated Levy's professional ethics, since the troopers were combatants first...