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Wagner, Die Meistersinger: Baritone Norman Bailey, Tenor Rene Kollo, Soprano Hannelore Bode; Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Sir Georg Solti conducting (5 LPs, London). Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Tenor Placido Domingo, Soprano Catarina Ligendza; Chorus and Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin, Eugen Jochum conducting (5 LPs, Deutsche Grammophon). Here are two performances-one extraordinary, one merely excellent-of an operatic marvel that over the years has proved difficult to commit to disc. The Solti is the more spacious and relaxed of the two; because of London's typically distant engineering, it also has a more homogenized sound...
Recruited by the Liberals in 1960, Lévesque became Minister of Natural Resources within a year. He earned the nickname "Reneé the Red" in conservative, English-speaking business circles by pushing through a controversial nationalization of Quebec's hydroelectric industry. One friend with whom Lévesque spent many heated nights discussing the hydro scheme was Pierre Elliott Trudeau, then a law professor at the University of Montreal...
...three-year-old collie named Graham. Except for Graham, he regards the young as heading into a world far less attractive than the one he grew up in. He also finds many of them hard to talk to. "Every organism, animal as well as human," he writes, citing Microbiologist Rene Dubos, one of his favorite authors, "lives in a private world of his own to which no one else has complete access. It is like the Old and the Young...
...Disco Ergo Sum" --Rene Discortes...
...ample testimony before Congress on the sordid, illegal activities carried out under the innocuous name of "destabilization." From 1964, when the CIA bought so many Chilean escudos to contribute to Allende's opponents that it caused a shortage on the money market, through the conspiracy to kidnap General Rene Schneider and the 1972 truck owners' strike that was funded largely with CIA donations, the history of American intervention in Chilean politics is a catalogue of dirty tricks. The actions of American corporations that led to an unofficial economic blockade and the sabotage of the CIA shrink, however, in comparison with...