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Workers are also worried that the economy is not going to pick up soon. While unemployment remains high, they feel business is free to increase its profits. "We'll go along with controls if they are equitable," says Paul Schrade of the U.A.W. "But why should the workingman shoulder higher prices and fixed wages when the profitmakers are getting away scot-free...
...biggest Los Angeles rally was planned for U.S.C., with Black Leader Ralph Abernathy, the U.A.W.'s Paul Schrade and Senator Alan Cranston as speakers. Women Strike for Peace organized a vigil at the veterans' cemetery in West Los Angeles. At suburban Whittier College, Richard Nixon's alma mater, there were to be no classes during the M-day campus rally. A Canoga Park housewife, Mrs. Diane Steffin, finds M-day a happy outlet for the antiwar feelings she has had since 1965. "Until now," she says, "there didn't seem to be any way short of going to college...
Finally, 23 minutes after the shootings, the ambulances collected the stricken: the youngster Stroll; Paul Schrade, 43, the United Auto Workers' Pacific Coast regional director, whose profusely bleeding head rested on a white plastic Kennedy-campaign boater; Ira Goldstein, 19, a part-time employee of Continental News Service, hit in the left hip; William Weisel, 30, an American Broadcasting Co. associate director, wounded in the abdomen; Mrs. Elizabeth Evans, 43, who with her husband Arthur had been touring the several election-night headquarters and wound up with a slug in her forehead. Although Schrade was the one who appeared dead...
...Schrade claimed that the conventional happy ending of Baroque opera did not mean that it was not tragedy. The plot, he said, was a secondary, forgotten matter; it was the "labyrinth of passions" given by the music that made the drama tragedy. Yet the limitations which contemporary culture placed on librettos made such opera only "a diverse drama with tragic episodes protruding." Baroque opera gave in the end "a blissfulness at least congenial to the awful intelligence of tragedy...
This style set the "basic potential of dramatic expression in music" which all later composers accepted, Schrade claimed. He called Gluck's attempts to reform this style "fruitless discussion," and said that in Wagner's music dramas "unbridled passion still remained the basis." If Mozart did not write a "full-blown" tragedy in Don Glovanni, the opera at least "betokened the features of tragedy" because "no sharp bound can be set where comedy ends and tragedy begins...