Word: raskins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little had really changed since the end of the Printers' disastrous strike two years ago. After that one, Abe Raskin of the New York Times Editorial Board wrote a long, lucid account of the strike in which he took both publishers and unions to task for their crammed and churlish attitude toward each other. In the Times last week, as well as in the Reporter, Raskin gave a repeat performance-chastising his own employers as well as the unions...
...Ordinary Business. "Each side," said Raskin, "convinced of its own eternal rectitude, sees the other with the grotesque distortions of a fun-house mirror." To make matters worse "defections and internal feuds have riddled the centra] organizations on which both sides once relied to promote industrial stability." Though they had talked over the issues for a full six months before the strike, neither the Times nor the Guild was prepared for serious collective bargaining. On the crucial question of the Times's pension plan, the "Guild did not bring in either an actuary or a program until after...
BACH: CANTATA NO. 51 (Decca). "Make a joyful noise unto God," sings Soprano Judith Raskin as she proceeds to do so, outshining a trumpet obbligato in a series of brilliant salvos. It is a virtuoso performance of some of Bach's most difficult and florid arias, and Thomas Dunn's Festival Orchestra of New York is almost too unobtrusive...
LEONARD BASKIN-Borgenicht, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. More of his men, birds and birdmen, but if Raskin's themes remain unchanged, his treatment is always fresh. Few artists break up space so imaginatively, or trap the animal lurking in humans with more cunning. Some of the 22 drawings are eight feet high. At AFI, 1067 Madison Ave. at 80th: four illustrations for the Yiddish edition of The Old Man and the Sea. Both through...
...ancient inn cured in ale and laughter, a courtyard full of gossip and sunshine, a forest too deep for the eye to penetrate. His cast moved briskly and well, as if every gesture had been choreographed, and his stage direction was so good that the singers (Gabriella Tucci, Judith Raskin, Regina Resnik, Anselmo Colzani) all seemed to be excellent actors as well...