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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...flaw is a 72-bar cut in the recapitulation of the first movement. Though the cut was sanctioned by the composer, it would have been preferable to present the work whole, since the concerto surely will not be recorded again soon. This aside, the performance is definitive; and the disk, filled out with Cordero's Eight Miniatures for Small Orchestra, won for Allen the Koussevitzky Recording Award from an international jury. But outlets for Allen's dazzling abilities will depend on the colorblindness of concert managers and audiences...
...seemed the only speculative bit of business on the Nation section's advance story list. Yet for the top editors of TIME and Time Inc., for the 17 Nation editors, writers and reporter-researchers at the convention, and for the magazine's 13 correspondents and ten photographers present, the event became a pageant of sleepless nights and hectic days, hot rumors and cold coffee, convention-floor traffic jams, tired feet and writer's cramp. TIME was blessed with a spacious workroom only a few steps from the floor of Detroit's Joe Louis Arena ("The best...
...glory of the Present is to make the Future free?
...psychological comparison lies deeper than resumes and managerial techniques. It has to do with symbols, with faith and luck. Whatever his talents, Eisenhower was an extraordinarily lucky man; he seemed to arrive at the White House between great disasters, and he did nothing to hurry new ones along. The present idea of the Eisenhower years, however, the marmoreal glow that they impart to Reagan in some people's minds, is a nostalgic distortion, an unconsciously artful forgetfulness about what the Eisenhower years were really like...
...present revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater is a gutsplitter. An accident immures Whiteside (Ellis Rabb) in an upper-middle-class home in a Midwestern backwater town. From his imperial wheelchair he plays an epigrammatic Nero to the hapless inhabitants. He forbids his hosts to use the telephone, tries to sabotage the love affair of his selfless secretary (Maureen Anderman), and makes his nurse rue the day that she first heard of Florence Nightingale...