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...travel, he beat Peterson by 15,000 votes. "We paced him just right," says Tiemann's campaign manager, David Pierson. "When election day came, we figured he was just about 14 hours away from total collapse." In the general election, Tiemann walloped liberal Democratic Lieutenant Governor Philip Sorensen, younger brother of ex-Presidential Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, by more than 100,000 votes...
Nebraskans still recalled indignantly that Ted Sorensen had castigated his native state as an "educationally depressed area" that was "old, outmoded, a place to come from or a place to die." Yet from the moment he took office in January, Tiemann has been telling them much the same thing. In his inaugural address, he warned that the only alternative to growing federal dominance was "the development of more responsive and more responsible state government." When he submitted his tax package to the legislature, he declared. "It is time to turn Nebraska loose...
...tempos. In the opening chorus, the slow pulse became divided, and the long tense lines tended to degenerate into series of disconnected fragments. The other choruses were more effective. Francis Hester's bass solo was a model of disciplined power, including some uncannily accurate duets with the oboe. Karl Sorensen's tenor solo, if a little monotonous, was consistently liquid and articulate...
...featured a large number of choral trills. Although they demonstrated the chorus's virtuosity, the emphasis placed upon them distorted rather than heightened the expression of Bach's musical ideas. In the remainder of the cantata, Jane Struss' alto aria was lucid and delicate, if not overpowering, and Sorensen gracefully navigated the difficult tenor aria...
Sonoma County district attorney charged Sorensen with violating a state law that makes willful nonsupport of a legitimate child a misdemeanor. To convict Sorensen, Municipal Court Judge James E. Jones Jr. relied partly on the public policy that "all children born in wedlock are presumed the legitimate issue of the marital partners...