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...Tennessee Valley Authority. When the TVA bill was before Congress in 1933, shortly after veterans' benefits were reduced, Rhode Island's Senator Jesse Houghton Metcalf cried: "How on earth can we justify taking a decent living from the soldiers who suffered on the battlefields of France and pour it into the mudholes of Tennessee?" Arizona's Sena tor Barry Goldwater today calls TVA "a giant federal power monopoly-a hoax...
...setting out to see My Cousin Rachel when it was playing in a Port Talbot cinema. On the way down the valley he stopped in 17 pubs. Finally settled in the theater, he watched the film begin. One of the first things Richard did on the screen was to pour himself a drink. "That's it," said Daddy...
...Conversation. The first première, a Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, played by Benny Goodman and Leonard Bernstein, had the misfortune of being the marquee come-on for an all-Poulenc concert that included some vintage works-the beautiful Fiançailles pour Rire song cycle, the lovely a cappella Motets. The sonata's first movement is nervously melodic, the second drowsily romantic, the third merely gymnastic; nowhere does the music lead the two instruments into the tense conversation the form requires. The piano simply accompanies the clarinet, as in a coloratura song, and the clarinet does little...
...their tickets or their programs, at 8:00 or 8:30 in trooped the opening-nightdress: grim. Two hours later they streamed out: smiling. The G & S Sorcerer cast a spell on them, from the start: "Forget your notes of mournful lay," the chorus commanded, "and from your throats pour joy today." All obeyed...
...although recent direct military participation by U.S. advisors has temporarily stemmed a fairly steady increase in Viet Cong strength, political conditions in South Vietnam remain unstable. They will continue to be unstable even if the United States is willing to pour money and men into this area for decades and to keep large portions of the population under constant military guard. To achieve any kind of lasting peace, there would have to be major political and economic reforms...