Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the credit belongs to Carter, whose clear triumph through the primaries has given him a popular legitimacy transcending factions. Another hero is Chairman Strauss, the shrewd and decent Texas lawyer with a gift for keeping horses of different gaits in harness. Three and a half years ago, Strauss took over a party that, in Mr. Dooley's crack, was not on speaking terms with itself. The party's liberal wing distrusted Strauss as a Texan who walked a line to the right of center. But he has proved to be one of the most effective chairmen...
...cheers that are sweeping the Paris Opera mark the triumph of this spring's new sensation: Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste. They mark the triumph too of the "reformers" who are determined to abolish the exaggerated trills and cadenzas of the Italian stage. Writes Britain's Charles Burney, author of the erudite new General history of Music: "The chevalier Gluck is simplifying music . . . He tries all he can to keep his music chaste." Retorts popular Librettist Pietro Metastasio: Gluck is a composer of "surprising fire...
Across the Rinne, Gluck's triumph is likely to spread far, for opera is becoming increasingly fashionable. At Esterház, for example, where Franz Josef Haydn serves as Kapellmeister to Prince Nicolaus the Magnificent, the composer has been asked to stop writing chamber music for the prince to play on his baryton viol and to drill his 22- man orchestra in opera. Among those who heard Haydn was Archduke Ferdinand, who commissioned him to compose an opera, La Vera Costanza, to be staged in Vienna later this year...
...every turning. For King George III, who predicted last week's action last year-and who has labored, in his own perverse, indefatigable way to bring it about -the course is equally clear. "The die is now cast," he has rightly said. "The Colonies must either submit or triumph...
...must fill even the redoubtable General Washington with foreboding. If the Howe brothers succeed in driving Washington out of New York, they can probably seize the whole Hudson Valley and cut America in half. Will Americans then have the courage and stamina to fight on? Yet even an American triumph, as miraculous as it now seems to many skeptics, will bring new problems. Britain can survive without its American Colonies, but the outcome for America, despite its vast riches and its ingenious people, is by no means clear...