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...until Sills helped revive it in 1969 at Milan's La Scala. Just as Handel's Julius Caesar at the City Opera had established her American reputation in 1966, the La Scala Siege made her an international star. Last week one could see and hear why. In lesser hands, Rossini's florid vocal writing might be just that-little more than tedious vocalizing. With Sills, a mistress of bel canto, each triplet, each double-octave run, each pianissimo high note was given musical and dramatic meaning. At one point in the second act, she sang lying...
...verdict leaves the sorrowful saga of Attica far from finished. Not one guard faces trial. Of the 62 inmates indicted, 38 still face prosecution, including Hill for another offense. Charges against 13 more have been dropped, six pleaded guilty to lesser charges, and one inmate was acquitted. For three of those originally charged, there will be no day in court. They have since died...
...political activity at Harvard. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, Harvard had fostered an "academic culture" that promoted scholarship for scholarship's sake, intellectual research relatively free of social constraint, and a solemn respect for creative academic thought. Because of its commitment to this ideal (and to a lesser extent, according to Lipset's analysis, because of its access to influence and financial resources), Harvard came to be though of as something of a sacred place for scholars. This was the Harvard that Lipset and his colleagues came to cherish so deeply, and this was the Harvard that Lipset...
...emphasis on rapprochement and cooperation, the U.S. relationship with Moscow and (to a lesser extent) Peking still remains on an adversary basis. If the Soviets push us, we must push them. The very essence of detente is that it can advance only when the U.S. is strong - a concept difficult to grasp...
...fact that several lesser powers are acquiring nuclear weapons makes decentralization all the more inevitable - and hardly reassuring. But it is obvious that the U.S. must scale down its enormous and costly worldwide commitments, many of them undertaken at that time of abnormal American predominance. The U.S. has realized that it does not have unlimited economic strength to "pay any price, bear any burden" and that even if it did, the effort would eventually be self-defeating. At his press conference last week, Henry Kissinger asserted that the U.S. "cannot pursue a policy of selective reliability," suggesting that all commitments...