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...Abbado and Pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, he is bored by the country's literature. "There are not many good Italian novels, probably because the Italian language has become over-rhetorical." Like Steiner, Kaiser is impressed by the intellectual ferment in France, particularly "the discussions influenced by Claude Levi-Strauss and the structuralists on one side and the Sartre pupils on the other." But except for the novels of Michel Butor and Claude Simon, whom he considers the most talented exponents of the nouveau roman, the "new novel" that is no longer very new, he is unimpressed with French belles...
There are essentially three kinds of operas: those that glorify the human voice (Bellini, Donizetti), those that glorify the orchestra (Strauss, Berg) and those that glorify both (Mozart, Wagner). What would the ultimate non-or anti-opera be? Obviously, a work that glorified neither singers nor orchestra -in fact, had no singers or orchestra...
Growing Up. A few of the McGovernites were in Strauss's corner to begin with; others are now coming around. Says Ted Van Dyk, who formulated issues for McGovern: "Strauss means it when he says that he's no ideologue. He's uncomfortable when discussion gets beyond the fact that it's better to elect a Democrat than a Republican." Reflecting on the Strauss victory, Journalist Stephen Schlesinger, son of Historian Arthur remarks: "Maybe the most important story here is that the McGovernites have grown up. A few months ago, we would have been wailing over...
...Strauss's jovial persona is the kind of tonic the Democrats need in an otherwise cheerless time. Strauss, 54, is the striving son of a Texas dry-goods merchant. He has been an adept moneymaker both for himself and the Democrats; he is also a man who can-and often does-call someone a "sonabitch" without having to smile. It is the other person, in fact, who smiles or even laughs...
...morning, he drives hard during the daylight hours until late afternoon, when he drops everything to relax. He likes to play poker or go to the races. Nobody has understood why he built a swimming pool at his Dallas home since he rarely goes near the water. Strauss explains: "Because I like to come home after a hard day at the office, pour myself a martini, open the blinds, look out on that pool and say: 'Strauss, you are one rich sonabitch.' " And everybody smiles...