Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more democracy," proclaimed New York's Al Smith in a more confident era. The Public Interest's tenth-anniversary issue, which contains articles by ten leading American intellectuals, comes to an opposite conclusion: democracy has gone far enough in America, perhaps too far. In the phrase of Samuel P. Huntington, professor of government at Harvard, democracy has contracted a bad case of "distemper." So many demands are made of the all too vulnerable system that it is in danger of breaking down. Or, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, writes: "Even our sense...
...Samuel Johnson who described opera as "an exotic and irrational entertainment." No one exemplifies that early diagnosis more than Caldwell. Her success story is anything but logical or coherent. Her energy would be impressive for a basketball star; for a beach ball of a woman, it is phenomenal. Her friend Beverly Sills describes Sarah's voice as "Ezio Pinza imitating a woman," but she can sweet-talk almost anybody out of, and into, anything...
...Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson professor of Government, said yesterday he disagreed with Mandelbaum's position. Voluntarily removing himself from consideration "goes against Rockefeller's previous actions in his 30 years in politics," Huntington said...
...stroke, the British obituaries were somewhat restrained. The Guardian observed that "his scheme of universal history was too absolute, and even his immense erudition too vulnerable...for his most ambitious work to prevail among contemporary generations." But some of those contemporaries were more generous. Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison said that "he was one of the few people who dared to write on the broad sweep of history." Daniel Boorstin, recently confirmed as the new Librarian of Congress, commented that "few historians have spent themselves so unstintingly or so effectively in the effort to transcend the provincialism of their...
...Lawrence Foster, the symphony's regular leader since 1972, makes his players key members of the drama. He cannot draw from Sopranos Evelyn Mandac (Almirena) and Noelle Rogers (Armida) the Baroque bravura he gets from Home, but Mandac is an especially lovely singer with a bright future. In Samuel Ramey (Argante), Foster has a bass baritone of extraordinary dramatic and lyric gifts, and it is easy to see why Ramey is fast filling the shoes and cape of the late Norman Treigle in Houston, at the New York City Opera and else where around the U.S. William Bender