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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...decision to retire, Gentele's name did not figure among the popular favorites: Conductors Leonard Bernstein and Erich Leinsdorf, Impresarios Julius Rudel of the New York City Opera and Hamburg's Rolf Liebermann and Composer Peter Mennin, the president of Juilliard. "I didn't even know myself until three weeks ago that I was being considered seriously," says Gentele...
...series of wildly complicated inventions that today can be seen as a prediction of the world's foundering in technology. Goldberg's contraptions used owls and trumpets to nominate people for political office, pistols and crows to feed an infant and rock its cradle. There was even a Hitler-kicking machine that gave the Führer his comeuppance via a cat, a mouse and a stripteaser. Goldberg constructed chains of causality that could be as illogical as life itself. A 1950 cartoon: "Truman (A) plays piano, knocking over bowl containing Amerasia secret papers (B)−fumes...
That will not be easy. In his columns and his book, Guide to Dining Out in New York, Claiborne combines formal gastronomic training, superb taste and a delightfully caustic, even bitchy style. His dismay with Le Pavilion after the death of Henri Soule reached its apex when he spotted a red pencil in the maitre d's breast pocket. He lamented: "In the days of its glory Le Pavilion was the ultimate French restaurant . . . The waiters now seem to collide with less grace than they did in former days...
...jockey must not, before arriving at the finish post, cease to urge his horse to fight for first, second or third place." Jockeys now fear that they may have to spend as much time in court as on the race track, fending off the suits of disgruntled bettors. Even race-track stodpers, who look for discarded ticket stubs, were heard to complain about the decision. If it holds up, racing fans will hang on to their stubs until the courts decide if losing jockeys, already faulted by track officials, have failed in their duties...
...sufficiently provocative of lethal resistance" to support a charge of murder against surviving accomplices when the gun wielder is killed. Thus the issue in this case was whether the murder charge against Taylor could be justified by something his buddies did to incite Mrs. West that was even more provocative than waving a gun. According to the court majority, the verbal threat of "execution" and the agitated demeanor of the gunmen provided the necessary additional provocation. To the dissenters, this distinction seemed "absurd." They insisted that a verbal threat to use a drawn gun is redundant...