Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baritone Sherrill Milnes' lago was a virile, magnetic figure, believable as a military officer, charming when he needed to be, capable of holding his twisted, demonic drives in check with a keen intelligence. No moment in the opera was more splendidly sung or powerfully acted than the second act S i, pel ciel, with Otello looming over him with upraised hand, like a malign marionette master. In this scene Verdi transcended Shakespeare, said Shaw. Watching Domingo and Milnes, one could only agree...
Some, like Marine Second Lieutenant Laurie Glenn Jacobson, manage to have their babies without missing much work. Jacobson, 26, completed a tough five-month course for officers at Quantico, Va., during her pregnancy. "The last couple of three-mile runs," she said, "I came in slower than everyone else." After Jacobson was transferred to Camp Pendleton, Calif., as executive officer of an ordnance and maintenance company, she worked hard until the day before she gave birth. Her labor lasted just three hours. Said she: "I credit that to the great physical conditioning of the Marine Corps." Another military mother, Captain...
...second installment of TIME's excerpts from White House Years, Henry Kissinger writes of the war that divided the U.S. at home and threatened to make a shambles of its policies abroad. He tells for the first time how during secret negotiations in Paris in April 1970-before the U.S. invaded the North Vietnamese sanctuaries in Cambodia-he proposed that Cambodia's neutrality be guaranteed and that an international conference on the subject be convened. North Viet Nam's representative, Le Duc Tho, bluntly spurned the proposal, claiming that Hanoi expected to hold sway over...
White House Years, to be published on Oct. 23 (Little, Brown; 1,521 pages; $22.50), covers Kissinger's stewardship as National Security Adviser during the period following Richard Nixon's 1968 election, ending with the signing of a Viet Nam peace treaty in January 1973. A second volume, now in preparation, will recount the years to January 1977, during most of which Kissinger was Secretary of State...
...some patriotic awkwardness when it was decided that everyone should stand at attention while the Sequoia passed Mount Vernon-a feat not managed by everybody with equal success. On the return to the White House, Nixon invited his convivial colleagues to see the movie Patton. It was the second time he had so honored me. Inspiring as the film no doubt was, I managed to escape for an hour in the middle of it to prepare for the next day's NSC meeting...