Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sills moves from misery to compassion (for her successor Jane Seymour), and then on to resolute acceptance of her fate, is a memorable lesson in the essential operatic art of building toward the big moment. Though not actually shown, the execution by ax is marvelously anticipated by Sills' clutching at her neck at the final curtain. As Henry, Baritone Robert Hale, 40, is a believably gruff, gout-ridden and girl-crazy monarch, dominating the stage in a way that disguises the fact that he does not have one solo aria...
...thing is for certain: Agnew's resignation this week and the imminence of the president's announcement of his successor served Nixon well by distracting public attention from Nixon, Watergate and related scandals, and other matters of public importance...
When I woke up this morning and scanned The Boston Globe, I received a little jolt. It wasn't because the Arabs and Jews were devastatingly blowing each other up again. I could handle that. Nor was the source President Nixon's search for a successor to Exspiro Agnew. Since I knew he wouldn't choose his wife (at a time like this, the country can't stand Pat), what did it matter? In fact, nothing on page one so much as gave me a shiver...
Speculation on a possible successor to Vice President Agnew raises the question of how much weight President Nixon places on his choice of a stand-in vice president...
Nixon could use this opportunity to try to handpick his own 1976 successor, but some political analysts predict he will choose a figure who is "above politic," and who would exit from the political arena at the end of Nixon's terms...