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...unselfconscious ease about it that helped to eliminate any difficulties the audience might have had with the style, dry by conventional standards but supple and expressive. Especially impressive was the Nero of Susan Larson, taking a part originally written for a male soprano; the Arnalta of Tenor Karl Dan Sorensen, playing a nursemaid in another of the opera's travesty roles; and the Ottone of Countertenor Jeffrey Gall. Kerry McCarthy made a vocally handsome, icily regal Poppea. Pearlman translated Giovanni Francesco Busenello's masterly libretto into idiomatic, singable English...
...going to share them with his friends all over America. Said Wisconsin's Republican Governor Lee Dreyfus, a Ph.D. in communications: "I'd give him an A if he were in my class." That was the mark generally awarded Reagan, even on a bipartisan basis. Said Theodore Sorensen, who helped draft John Kennedy's 1960 Inaugural Address: "Reagan tried to make the tent he was constructing large enough to hold a significant portion of the population, and I think he did it." Iowa's G.O.P. Governor Robert Ray, who has been cool to Reagan...
...break it." That plan has focused recently on efforts by a Stevens business associate, American Entrepreneur Maurice Templesman, to help Sierra Leone get financing from the World Bank for an ambitious deep diamond-mining venture. A sometime escort of Jackie Onassis, Templesman has hired New York Lawyer Theodore Sorensen, once the chief speechwriter for John F. Kennedy, to represent his interests. In Freetown, it is widely suspected that Stevens takes his cut of his country's dealings with De Beers. That rumor may have prompted the angry remark of one black nationalist leader at the recent summit, namely that...
...White House experience repeats itself. But there are similarities from the past. Theodore Sorensen, John Kennedy's aide, recalls that in the first hours of the Bay of Pigs disaster, Kennedy was angry. "It fired him," said Sorensen. J.F.K. launched a Government-wide review of his people and U.S. capabilities. It helped spur him on the race to the moon, and he sought a meeting in the summer of 1961 with Nikita Khrushchev. Kennedy would not be humiliated or despondent. He vowed to win. Without the same superiority of power and with the crisis so distant, Carter...
...Theodore Sorensen, President Kennedy's speechwriter, insisted, "For the first time, we are beginning to see almost a total separation of the qualities needed to win elections and the qualities required to govern effectively...