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Misplaced Aria. What few realized was the extent of Landon's "a la Haydn" restoration: fully one-third of the opera was pure Landon. So skillful was the reweaving job that even Director Werner Duggelin and Conductor Alberto Erede were taken in. Questioned about the major aria, "Quanti diversi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Helping Haydn | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

Died. Balfour Bowen Thorn Lord, 58, Democratic Party chief in New Jersey since 1961 and chairman for 17 years of powerful Mercer County (which includes Trenton), a skillful organizer who in 1954 was widely credited with electing Governor Robert B. Meyner after ten years of Republican rule, but proved less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 25, 1965 | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

Kenneth Stampp, a skillful and pungent professor of history at the University of California, comes at the end of a line of revisionist scholars who have discredited Dunning's interpretation. Their origins go back to the 1930's, when immigrants and minority groups were at last gaining access to political...

Author: By Ben W. Heineman jr., | Title: Revising Thoughts on the Irreversible | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

∙ IKE'S U2. After the Russians captured Gary Powers and his wrecked U-2 plane in 1960, skillful Soviet dribbling of information led the U.S. from clumsy denial of the aerial surveillance to an awkward admission by President Eisenhower. As a result, Ike's summit with Khrushchev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE U.S. & WORLD OPINION | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

If you think about the word, "doing," a while, and about what is meant by it, you may begin to develop a whole new attitude about what the theatre amounts to. In any case, to judge by the conviction with which the cast performed Just a Quiet Note, the technique...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: Just A Quiet Note | 5/24/1965 | See Source »

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