Word: switches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MASCHERA (RCA Victor: 3 LPs). Masked Ball's libretto is strictly crackplot, but Verdi's tunes justify the onstage bewilderment. The opera has an ominous history: the day Verdi brought his score to Naples, assassins tried to murder Napoleon III. Frightened Bourbon censors forced the composer to switch the locale of his rather gloomy tale (about the assassination of Sweden's 18th century King Gustav III) to exotic Massachusetts and to dramatize instead the assassination of the "Governor of Boston." Conducted appropriately by Boston's Erich Leinsdorf, this version stars the lush vocal beauty of Leontyne...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* "And Baby Makes Five," the story of a successful Madison Avenue type who finally decides that he'd rather switch jobs and fight the system. Cliff Robertson plays the adman turned crusading small-town editor; Angie Dickinson is his fashion-model wife. Repeat...
...switch in tactics from the gung-ho role in World War II and Korea made Walt a frequent target of criticism. The controversy also pointed up a split between Marine and Army commanders. Army men, pointing to such bloody engagements as la Drang, argued that the way to win was to kill the V.C. first and pacify the population later. The Marines replied that search-and-destroy tactics suitable for the wastes of the Central Highlands could not be employed in the populous seacoast of "Eye" corps. Moreover, they pointed out, wherever Army troops pulled out, the Viet Cong flowed...
...pallid, intense Brooklyn dermatologist appeared to be more often stricken by confusion than conscience. Though claiming that he refused to teach Special Forces aidmen simple skin-disease remedies because he believed they would commit war crimes in Viet Nam, he was unable to support the charge. In a switch of tactics, his attorneys last week argued that to teach the Green Berets medical skills would have violated Levy's professional ethics, since the troopers were combatants first and medics second and would use their knowledge for political ends. Therefore, they maintained, he was perfectly justified in refusing the order...
...want the requirement to provide students with a firm confrontation with a language, but not a destructive one," Monro explained. He said there "has been quite a switch in attitudes in the College" about the rigor with which the requirement should be observed...