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...praised "one of the finest writers of our time," possessed with "fortunate invention . . . visual imagination and rhetorical virtues." Lionel Trilling maintained that Chesterton was "a far greater critic than his present reputation might suggest." And W.H. Auden could not think of "a single comic poem that is not a triumphant success...
...live television interview one week after her triumphant tour of the Falkland Islands. Thatcher said the missiles are vital to counter a Soviet build...
During the struggle for power at the Met that followed Sir Rudolf Bing's retirement as general manager and the death in 1972 of Göran Gentele, his successor, in an automobile crash, two men emerged triumphant. Bliss, whose father had been the Met's chairman of the board, became executive director and, later, general manager. Levine became music director. His boyish grin remained undimmed, even during the bitter labor dispute that postponed the opening of the 1980 season; it was, says Sue Thomson, "the closest I've ever seen him to being depressed...
...usual suspects . . . We'll always have Paris. It has inspired bits of business: Sydney Greenstreet bowing graciously to Ingrid Bergman in the Blue Parrot and then with brutal abstraction swatting a fly, which for the instant becomes the moral equivalent of any refugee in Casablanca. Or the alltime triumphant moment of literal-minded symbol-banging exposition: Claude Rains dropping the bottle of Vichy Water into a wastebasket and giving it a kick, the charming collaborator virtuous at last...
...priority in the U.S. Immediately after World War II, with the help of the Ford Foundation, Columbia established its Russian Institute and Harvard set up the Russian Research Center to promote study in Soviet history, politics, economics and literature. In 1958, the year after the Soviets' triumphant launch of Sputnik, Congress passed the National Defense Education Act, which provided Government funds for Soviet-studies programs at such universities as Washington, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, California (Berkeley), Indiana and Stanford. By 1970, however, Government and foundation funds began drying up. Between 1967 and 1976, federal contracts for all foreign affairs research...