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At no time did we predict that Nixon would "squeeze ahead by two percentage points." Our only prediction was that the race was too volatile and too close to permit a prediction-with 4% of the eligible voters undecided up to the very end. Kennedy's margin of one...
But for all of Farrell's breezy modernity, Alcestis was still hopelessly dated, notwithstanding Gluck's prediction that "time does not exist for it, because the piece is founded upon nature and has nothing to do with fashion." Written in 1767, it retells the legend of King Admetus...
Thus, while these regimes may be better in the Russian view than Western-oriented democracies, Schwarts concluded, they are not unacceptable from the American point of view. "If you get a many-sided world with many polarities," he said, the Communist prediction of eventual world victory "will gradually pass over...
Paisiello: The Barber of Seville (Grazielli Sciutti, Nicola Monti, Rolando Panerai, Renato Capecchi; Virtuosi di Roma, conducted by Renato Fasano; Mercury, 2 LPs). "He has received the homage of his age and has assured to himself that of posterity." Thus Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) paid tribute to himself in a...
Asked the nature and the magnitude of the obstacles in de Gaulle's path, Aron replied that though he considered the "obstacles higher today than two years ago," when de Gaulle came to power, there is no cause for despair. His mood was that of a rather restrained optimism, as...