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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington the disbelief was just as overwhelming. "My God, this can't be true, this must mean the Philippines," said Secretary Knox on hearing the news. "No, sir," said Admiral Stark, "this is Pearl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

Kimmel and Short were only too aware that Washington was concentrating on Hitler's victories in Russia and his submarines' ravages of Atlantic shipping. Though Chief of Naval Operations Harold Stark acknowledged to Kimmel that his Pacific Fleet was weaker than the Japanese forces arrayed against it, he not only turned aside Kimmel's request for two new battleships but took away three he had, plus one of his four carriers, to help fight the Battle of the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

Roosevelt tried to call Admiral Stark, but he was at a revival of Sigmund Romberg's Student Prince; the President didn't want him paged at the theater lest that cause "undue alarm." When Roosevelt did finally reach him shortly before midnight, the Navy chief said, according to his later recollection, that the message was not "something that required action." After all, Stark testified, warnings had already gone out that Japan was "likely to attack at any time in any direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...place of the banks of the River Scheldt are huge, gradually shifting columns of light. It is a tribute to Wilson's dramatic cunning that the production is a striking success. The stylized motion and lighting intensify the visceral excitement in the score and heighten the stark contest between the hero and the villainess Ortrud. And the singers, especially Gosta Winbergh in the title role, are first rate. Blessed with a sizable lyric tenor, Winbergh sings Lohengrin's famous farewell softly -- as it is almost never done -- and makes it heartbreaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Wagner in Slo-Mo | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

Funeral Ceremony--is the stark drama of one woman against an entire town. At the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at 24 Quincy St. Call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 10/10/1991 | See Source »

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