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Businessmen almost unanimously fault Nixon for allowing inflation to rage much too long before imposing controls. When he finally did put on controls, however, he won new sympathy from executives, including Democrats. "You have to give him credit for having the flexibility to change from a disastrous policy of tight money and laissez-faire," says Howard Stein, head of the Dreyfus Corp., who was chief fund raiser for the 1968 campaign of Democrat Eugene McCarthy...
...Initially, Abron children are indulged and fondled by all the adults around them and show no aggression-until a new child is born. Then, Alland writes, having been abruptly displaced from center stage, "most babies who have been quite placid up to this point begin to show signs of rage and aggression." This new behavior is severely punished, however, so that the children learn to control their anger. As a result, Abron adults are rarely aggressive toward other people. Instead they direct their aggression in fantasy and ritual at imaginary beings, called deresgog, or witches...
...heavyweight varsity seedings for Saturday's Eastern Sprint rowing championships are common knowledge now, and once again, the sounds of stifled rage are being heard in several boathouses along the Eastern seaboard...
...action revolves around the licentious exploits of a Don Juan figure, Don Giovanni in the Italian: Raymond Hickman makes a strong, swaggering, insolent libertine whose singing suggests an appropriate mocking tone whether in love or rage. The Don's servant, Leporello, is usually caricatured as an inoffensive jester. As played by Daniel Windham, easily the finest actor of the cast, he became a figure of great sensitivity and dignity. Windham's basso was round and distinct, his stage movements expressive and natural...
...fine English translation of the libretto did not help Elisabeth Phinney as Donna Elvira. Her diction in arias was mediocre. She was perfectly clear through the recitative so the problem is obviously not insoluble. She was at her best in Ah, Fuggi il Traditor, a Handelian rage aria complete with dotted rhythms, large interval leaps, and distinct bass line. In the peasant-girl Zerlina's role, Lisbeth Brittain was properly ingenuous and sang with a bright, light soprano voice...