Word: reines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most, and his second Inaugural, a four-day wingding that begins this Friday, will be quieter, more controlled and a good deal less ostentatious than his first. The Inaugural, America's 50th, is being carefully crafted by the soon-to-depart Michael Deaver and the Presidential Inaugural Committee to rein in spending and promote a new egalitarian image for the Administration. Its theme: "We the People . . . An American Celebration...
...THOUGHTFUT and farsighted voter, nothing could have been more chilling than the prospect of Ronald Reagan casting the next Supreme Court. Somehow though, this far-reaching concern got lost amidst competing claims about who could best tame the deficit or who would rein in the runaway arms race. Sure, the President mumbled something about how well he did with Sandra Day O'Connor and Mondale occasionally warned against the perils of Reagan court, but next to the obvious and immediate issues of budgets and bombs the Court received watcher put it. "For one of the most profound issues...
Reagan's aides are divided into two camps. The True Believers-White House Counsellor Ed Meese, Interior Secretary and former National Security Adviser William Clark, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger-want to continue pressing a hard line against Communism and giving free rein to supply-side economics. The Pragmatists-White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker, Deputy Chief Michael Deaver, Presidential Aide Richard Darman, Budget Director David Stockman and Secretary of State George Shultz-see the top priorities as reducing the deficit and reaching an arms-control accord with the Soviets...
...already a brilliant conductor of Parsifal, he views Lohengrin as a kind of musical prequel to Wagner's last work. He adopted a daringly slow _ tempo for the Act I prelude, letting it burn with a fervid religiosity, but gave the chorus and onstage "brass players thrilling free rein in the opera's frequent boisterous moments. Levine has mastered the sense of timelessness so crucial to successful Wagner performances in general, and static works like Lohengrin in particular; one looks forward to the day, two seasons hence, when he takes on the more overtly dramatic Ring...
...zero-zero proposal on short-range missiles in Europe, and which helped scotch the reasonable "walk-in-the-woods" compromise under which NATO deployments would be scaled back for a reduction of Soviet SS-20s. It is the same attitude which, in the strategic talks, asks Moscow to rein in their landbased missiles while Washington proceeds with its build-up on air and sea-launched nukes. It is the same attitude that enables the Republicans to make the disgraceful attack on Democratic foreign policy as somehow unpatriotic...