Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confident man. Word has it that under his three-year tutelage, the Faculty is running extraordinarily smoothly, rationally and with what little dirty laundry there is carefully circumscribed and tagged 'for internal consumption only.' Rosovsky has, in a sense, accomplished what many considered a Herculean task: in the wake of the '60s tumult, during which the administration came to personify evil, he has, according to one dean, "restored the trust of the Faculty, reestablished the joint desire of the dean and the Faculty to get things done." His moderately conservative image and politics have been forgotten, or perhaps have become...
...central and overriding issue of the campaign-crucial not just for Italy but for all of Western Europe-is whether or not the huge, superbly organized Communist Party, led by Enrico Berlinguer, will finally come to a share in power after nearly 30 years in opposition. In the wake of World War II, Italy's Communists -then led by the late Palmiro Togliatti -were turned back. But now once again a Red threat looms over Italy, although it is a very different Communist Party that is bidding to enter the government. Just how different is the big question...
...Hero is apparently in tended both as humorous metaphor and, in Menotti's words, as "a gentle, good-natured plea for Americans to wake up to reality, to abandon self-congratulatory illusions, to return to their former rugged individualism." The opera invites easy comparisons. There is a tape-erasing scene (David's awakening has been recorded); though the Nixon tapes are not mentioned, the point is obvious. Operatic comparisons are also in order. The Hero is a reverse twist on Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, that maudlin, heavy-handed tale about the impersonation of a dead...
...buried. He had died on his 16th birthday. Pamela Engstrom, wearing the blue-and-white gingham dress- a gift from her mother-had died the day after her 18th birthday. The victims also included Twins Carlene and Sharlene Engle, 18, who loved to sing songs composed by their mother, Wake and Smile in the Sunshine and Take Pride in America. After their funeral, Sharlene's dusty 1963 Ford station wagon was parked across the street from her home. A FOR SALE sign was in the window...
...South, just the opposite was happening, says Glazer. Bureaucrats directed by Leon Panetta, head of the Office of Civil Rights, ignored Nixon and kept pressure on the South. While the end was desirable, the means were dangerous. Panetta even withheld relief to noncomplying Southern school districts in the wake of Hurricane Camille in 1969. Writes Glazer: "There is much to be learned about how one ideological and narrow-minded bureaucrat may stalemate a national administration...