Word: stormfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence, the fact of Vellucci's resignation may be enough to convict him in the minds of many voters. Dealing with a public that has by experience learned to equate resignations with cover-ups, Vellucci might have lost badly-needed votes by his seeming reluctance to ride out the storm. But if the post-Watergate political mentality costs the mayor some support, his grasp of conventional political wisdom will probably save him quite a bit more--by resigning early in the game, Vellucci undoubtedly kept the bad publicity from getting out of hand, and prevented his trial in the press...
...organized constituency. Nevertheless, the canal issue is fraught with risk for conservatives. If the treaty is ratified, they are losers; if it is rejected and the canal is disrupted by violence, they are probably still losers, since their plans for a comeback could well collapse in a fire storm of recriminations...
Harvard has been an up and down experience for Nelson. He entered with the class of '78--a high school all-American--but he did not take the place by storm...
Returning from New York, Carter reached Washington in time to see a Senate committee chew a few more morsels out of his energy program and add to his griefs over the Panama Canal treaties. Kansas Republican Robert Dole raised a modest storm by disclosing a confidential State Department cable quoting a Panamanian diplomat as saying that Panama could not "agree to the right of the U.S. to intervene" militarily after 1999. What's more, the diplomat vowed, U.S. warships could not "go to the head of the line" to transit the canal in case of an emergency. The cable...
Nonetheless, the 24-year-old composer produced the best opera seria ever written. Indeed Idomeneo contains some of Mozart's greatest music, much of it achieved with effects that were novel then -and are striking today. In the awesome Act II storm scene, Mozart played with orchestral color like a would-be Romanticist. Never before had Munich heard the morose strains of muted brass. He also gave the chorus a vital role that would have been daring even by the standards of French opera. The arias of opera seria had traditionally been set pieces; Mozart often led the music...