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...finest hour, of course, was Watergate, which it now finds hard to live up to. Watergate made folk heroes and millionaires out of Woodward and Bernstein, sent up Bradlee's ego when he saw Jason Robards' fine film portrayal of him in All the President's Men, and in the face of economic and political threats to the paper, proved Publisher Katharine Graham's courage. Hard to top all that-last year's exposure of Congressman Wayne Hays and his dolly seems much less momentous. Cartoonist Herblock is bereft without Nixon to kick around...
Shirley MacLaine, who kicked off the show, sang a new version of Cy Coleman's It's Not Where You Start (the last lines: "It's where you finish/ And you've finished on top"). Leonard Bernstein conducted the National Symphony Orchestra in his composition If Ever Man Were Loved by Wife, which he dedicated to Rosalynn. James Dickey recited a new poem, describing Carter as a mythic hero drawing strength from a walk in the Plains countryside on a summer's night. Sample lines: "Lord, let me shake/ With purpose. Wild hope can always...
...ethnic groups was upset about the Inauguration Eve concert in Kennedy Center. The stars include Actors John Wayne and Paul Newman, Actresses Bette Davis and Shirley MacLaine, Comics Elaine May, Mike Nichols and Redd Foxx, Athletes Muhammad Ali and Hank Aaron, Satirist Chevy Chase, Soprano Beverly Sills, Conductor Leonard Bernstein. Yet the Ethnic Cultural Inaugural Committee complained that the cast "doesn't reflect the ethnic and racial diversity of America." Most of the carping, however, centered on invitations and tickets. Some 300,000 "general invitations" on soft eggshell paper and colorful 16-page guides to the festivities were dispatched...
Reports TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein, who is based in Hong Kong: "The mix of popular dissatisfaction, the loss of Mao as a figure of authority and the constant infighting within the bureaucracy have created the most explosive political crisis to face China since the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. The vast might of the military makes a genuine civil war unlikely, but if lingering unrest and sporadic outbreaks of violence continue, Hua could be shunted aside by the army. His military backers may decide that they have put up the wrong man to deal with the post-Mao crisis...
...Roger Bernstein, another third-year student, said he thinks younger professors have made an effort to tone down the tension...