Word: reines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complete her long-planned and justly famed Donizetti trilogy. As with the other queens of the Tudor era, Elizabeth I in Roberto Devereux and the Queen of Scots in Maria Stuarda, Sills proves again that she is a singing actress without peer. Stage Director Tito Capobianco gives her full rein: she even takes final leave of her lord and mate Henry VIII by giving him a stinging slap in the face that is a triumph of histrionics over history...
...Paulus. From the beginning he had established his independence. On the evening of his wedding to Hannah he went off to revel with a bachelor friend, winding up the night -talking, he said-in a strange girl's room. Tillich acknowledged his "demons," but gave them rather free rein...
...during the past 20 years has spent overseas-in purchases of foreign goods, military expenditures and business investments-far more than it has taken in from foreign countries. An oversupply of dollars, like an oversupply of potatoes, tends to drive down the price. That tendency has been given free rein since March by a change in the way that the international monetary system operates. Previously, foreign countries had been required to maintain set exchange rates between their currencies and the dollar-meaning that if no one else would buy dollars, government banks had to purchase them to support the price...
BENNETT'S DEPARTURE was no small change, for it gave Bok free rein in determining the University's role as an activist stockholder. He selected George Putnam '49, a member of a well-known financial family, and more receptive to guarding the new image of a financially responsible Harvard. But the most important change of the year came in January, when the irascible John T. Dunlop left Bok's Harvard (although he continued to put in long hours on weekends for three months) for Nixon's Washington and the directorship of the Cost of Living Council...
Meanwhile, the Administration has continued its attempts to keep a rein, however light, over the course of the criminal investigation into the Watergate matter. Archibald Cox '34 apparently is satisfied with his control over the investigation. But Elliot Richardson '41, the Attorney General-designate and Cox's nominal superior, is behaving like the president's man. If there is one thing totally unnecessary to the evolving crisis, it is further interference by the president...