Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sir. I feel I had far more opportunity than I expected, a far closer relationship with the President than I could have hoped for. I viewed it as a staff job. I had studied the [Vice President's] responsibilities for President Eisenhower and recommended there wasn't anything [more that he could give Nixon], that if he did, he gave up [some of] his own power, and he would be creating a competitive unit within the Government. So I was fascinated when [Gerald Ford] asked me to take on the CIA investigation. I said, "Well, I am interested...
...raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants - never did a lick of work - summers at European spas - impossible to go anywhere without a chaperone. A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight, and all through her teens scribbled madly romantic epics in imitation of her favorite writers: Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas and Rafael Sabatini...
...Prine howls "please don't bury me in that cold, cold ground/No I'd druther have'em cut me up and pass me all around." The other songs are very nearly all just as inspired. There are paeans to rural drug use--"Illicit Smile": Please don't arrest me sir, I'm smiling because I feel no pain, not because I killed somebody--like one of you Babbitts. Probably has no meaning to you unless you used to get stoned and run pick-up trucks into trees...
WAGNER: DIE MEISTERSINGER (London. 5 LPs). Sir Georg Solti and an eloquent cast-notably Britain's Norman Bailey as a wise and warm Sachs-present the finest recorded performance yet of this operatic masterpiece...
Wagner, Die Meistersinger: Baritone Norman Bailey, Tenor Rene Kollo, Soprano Hannelore Bode; Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Sir Georg Solti conducting (5 LPs, London). Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Tenor Placido Domingo, Soprano Catarina Ligendza; Chorus and Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin, Eugen Jochum conducting (5 LPs, Deutsche Grammophon). Here are two performances-one extraordinary, one merely excellent-of an operatic marvel that over the years has proved difficult to commit to disc. The Solti is the more spacious and relaxed of the two; because of London's typically distant engineering, it also has a more homogenized sound...