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...everybody, except Swedes, on the tight little island of international opera. As opera directors go, he is a virtual unknown whose work has been seen outside Europe only once. At Montreal's Expo 67, his company staged productions of Tristan, Ballo in Maschera and an Ingmar Bergman-directed Rake's Progress to excellent critical acclaim. In the guessing game that followed Bing's decision to retire, Gentele's name did not figure among the popular favorites: Conductors Leonard Bernstein and Erich Leinsdorf, Impresarios Julius Rudel of the New York City Opera and Hamburg's Rolf...
...money and thus discourage fixes. Customers could dial a bet and have the transaction entered on their phone bills. The Government would not pay bribes, which cost the Mob about $2 billion a year. It could make winnings tax-free and still get by with a 10% to 20% rake-offless than half the Mob's reported take. In short, the Government could offer better odds. As Loeb figures it, the Government might net $15 billion a yearenough to pay almost a quarter of the Pentagon's budget...
...often accused of emotional aridity, a charge which is beneath contempt. One has only to listen to Persephone, the slow movement of the Piano Concerto, Apollo, Orphcus, or the lullaby of The Rake's Progress. But every bar of his music is lyrical in the highest sense, that of selfless restraint. Chekhov, a similar artist in this and other respects, once wrote to a friend, "The more sensitive the matter in hand, the more calmly one should describe it-and the more touching it will be at last." Stravinsky has composed in the belief that feeling is deepest when least...
Though most court proceedings are a matter of public record, the fact that many courts allow stenographers to rake in extra income means that a Sidney Lipman or a Dorothy Brackenbury can make a killing on an important case. As it stands, only poor defendants are shielded from potentially avaricious stenographers. In 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an indigent defendant on appeal has a constitutional right to a free copy of his trial record. All others must...
...over the world, English-language newspapers comfort American tourists, help teach native students and rake in local advertisers' bahts, cruzeiros, dinars, pesos, rupees and yen. But some of the papers are English in name only. As a splendid example, the first issue of Buenos Aires' new American News has just announced its aims in a charming front-page letter from the editor...