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Having secured their primary goal--the demonstrators should abandon their battle posts and swallow their anarchic threats to burn down the University to save their own skins...
...major asset: Bernstein had persuaded Mezzo Christa Ludwig to abandon her accustomed role as the youth Octavian for the lead role of the aging Marschallin, usually sung by a soprano. Ludwig's vocal prowess, womanly softness and pathos proved her a perfect choice. Said Bernstein: "She was so marvelous in the last scene that I cried watching her." And that was no Viennese exaggeration...
...BOSTON, were the Mayor able to summon the courage to abandon the conventional approach and hand resources over to community control, he might also solve his own administive headache. He too could say: 'You people decidewhat is best for your neighbourhood. We'll help -- but it cannot be our decision...
...urban areas, particularly in the North, Negro churches-like their white counterparts-have been suffering from a steady erosion of influence. One problem is that college-educated Negroes, as they gain in affluence, tend to abandon fundamentalist churches. Says Detroit N.A.A.C.P. Leader Robert Tindal, describing the Negro's Christian status ladder: "When you're poor, you're Baptist; when you advance slightly, you become a Methodist; when you arrive you're an Episcopalian." By comparison with King and other outspoken Southern pastors, the majority of Northern clergy have been much more passive in the struggle...
...back meekly while their fate is being decided. Last week, in the wake of President Johnson's dual decisions not to run for re-election and to curtail bombing of the North, Saigon's mood was one of deep apprehension. Despite U.S. protestations that it would not abandon Viet Nam, the country's leaders worried about what course the U.S. might take in peace talks and began rethinking how South Viet Nam should react to any drastic shift in the American commitment...