Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might have been expected to take a political breather. Not so. People and politicians were rereading the returns and trying to follow them -according to their own interpretations. A liberal Republican said he and those like him should show their muscles ; a forgotten Republican did handsprings trying to trip up an old enemy. But the most exciting activities were the nip-ups of six Democrats trying to fit the election returns into their own futures. They were scattered across the world and, individually, they practiced political yoga in Puerto Rico, foreign-policy pushups in Paris, telephone calisthenics in Texas, crosscountry...
...leading contenders, some might wear themselves out doing dressing-room nip-ups before 1960, others might trip over the ropes while entering the ring, others might be kayoed with one presidential primary punch. There will always be more to take their places, but as of this week, six Democrats had emerged from the 1958 elections looking fittest. The six: Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, California's Governor-elect Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, and New Jersey's Governor Robert Meyner...
...other Democratic candidates commanded as broad a lead as Bob Bartlett, they seemed far enough ahead of their Republican opponents to warrant all the push Fred Seaton could give-and Seaton pushed hard. He collected all the "things that ought to be done" and saved them for his campaign trip, frankly admitted that his basket of good news was calculated to help win the election. In Juneau he announced a long-awaited ban on the hated fish traps, symbol of the control of "absentee" Northwest fish canners and a chief cause of depletion of fish stocks. In Point Barrow...
Even without all the glad tidings, Seaton's trip was far more effective than the brief appearance of either Vice President Richard Nixon or the Democrats' Senator Jack Kennedy. Nixon and Kennedy got good crowds, packed in a lot of visits. But Alaskans have deep feeling for Fred Seaton, who gets much of the credit for statehood. Next week if Alaska's voters surprise themselves by electing a few Republicans to office, Fred Seaton could once again take much of the credit...
These two scenes make up most of the second half of the evening and are well worth a trip into Boston. The specific vehicle for all this comedy is Rossini's opera Count Ory (given with only a few small cuts), and its agents are the members of the New England Opera Theatre, of which the indefatigable Boris Goldovsky is artistic director...