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...admissions office ban on coaches' recruiting trips has, in the eyes of a few coaches, put Harvard at a major disadvantage in its attempts to woo scholar-athletes away from other Ivy League schools. Restic says that each year, the football team loses prospects to the personal appeals of rival coaches, and adds that "'the competition is getting heavier." Baseball coach Park agrees. "There's nothing like personal contact as far as I'm concerned. We feel we still get the good student-athletes, we get great athletes. But when a guy's in the kid's house, talking...
Cataloguing the weaknesses of this production would be the easy thing to do. Better perhaps to start with its highlight: a charismatic vignette by Patty Woo as the devilishly sensuous maid. Uninhibited and secure in her own sexuality, Petra serves as a foil to the other characters, who are trapped in false unions and unable to heed their hearts' urgings. Woo's eloquent rendition of "The Miller's Son," a defense of her free and easy lifestyle and a prayer for future stability, is her only moment in the spotlight. But the energy and excitement she brings to this number...
Aside from Woo, the cast suffers from a lack of guidance from director Kenneth Sanek. The worst victims--and offenders--are Terry Knickerbocker as Fredrik Egerman and Denice Villa Peter as his virginal young wife Anne. Knickerbocker has a rich, mellow speaking voice, but little conception of how to use it. His singing, while pleasant, is much too weak for the role, and his characterization of Egerman, a stuffy middle-aged lawyer, is too low-keyed. Since in any production Egerman is likely to be overshadowed by the glamorous figure of his mistress Desiree, underplaying the role invites disaster. Knickerbocker...
This week there is solid evidence that Carter's efforts to woo the American people are paying off. A survey for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc.-the most comprehensive poll to be published since Carter took office-shows a majority of Americans support his criticism of Soviet human rights violations, approve of his informal style and think that he can be trusted (see following story). Carter's own pollster, Patrick Caddell, finds that the President is making "major inroads" among groups of voters who gave him lukewarm support during the election, including Jews, blue-collar ethnics...
Drained Votes. Now Giscard's most serious potential rival on the right, Chirac had accused the President of a "soft" attitude toward the left. A bold tactician, Chirac set out to revitalize a Gaullist party that had fallen into disarray and to woo workers from the left. In Paris, Chirac was helped by lackluster opposition candidates for the mayoralty and by a strong showing of candidates running on an ecology platform, who drained votes from the left. In the provinces, however, many of his close political allies were defeated. "Chirac stands like a white knight in Paris," observed...