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...COLONELS, of course, are merely busboys for the Pentagon, literally busboys. Only Brazil is the proper comparison, or South Korea, something like that. That's the proper comparison. There's nothing nationalistic about this regime, nothing at all. It's a sellout. This particular regime, you see, may be used to develop relationships with colonels in North Africa to make infiltration also on other fronts, in other lands. So, it seems to me, then, that the resumption of military aid-you can talk forever about that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'The First Computerized Coup I Know Of' | 3/27/1971 | See Source »

Empty Seats. No symphony orchestra in the world has a more critical audience than the I.P.O. None has more public support. Its 35,000 subscribers (probably the highest number proportionately in the world) guarantee sellout houses for all 209 of the Philharmonic's yearly concerts. Ninety percent of the orchestra's income, in fact, is derived from subscriptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Schoenberg for Others | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...poetic make-believe and pantheistic sultriness perfectly by using slides and films (photographed especially in the Louisiana bayous), as well as surrealistic light patterns. So well did production and opera blend, so superb the singing of Baritone Eugene Holmes and Soprano Claudia Lindsey in the lead roles, that sellout audiences erupted into shouting ovations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ante Bellum Aida | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...counterpoint from then on, a certain unison of thought and execution dominated their recital. The performance-notable, among other things, for the way Jacqueline sometimes wrapped her long, graceful arms around the cello in a passionate embrace-fully deserved the audience's round enthusiasm and more than sellout house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Inside the Outside Family | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...fantasy and the mysterious. Moreover, in The Makopoulos Affair, completed in 1925 three years before his death, the composer created an opera that offers no arias, no immediately whistleable tunes but is nonetheless marked by a considerable genius. Last week, when the New York City Opera produced it, a sellout audience responded with a twelve-minute ovation, a generous part of it in praise of the ingenuity used by Director Frank Corsaro and Mixed-Media Experts Gardner Compton and Emile Ardolino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Monster of Ice and Ennui | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

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