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...generally worthy of its subject. The title role, superbly sung by Van Dam, must surely be the longest individual part in the operatic literature. The saint appears in seven of the eight tableaux and does much, if not most, of the singing in each. At the composer's request, Giuseppe Crisolini-Malatesta based the sets and costumes on paintings by Fra Angelico, Giotto and Matthias Grünewald. As staged by Sandro Sequi, scenes are played in small, diorama-like boxes to emphasize the work's distant, legendary quality. The only serious dramatic defect is the sixth scene...
Last year the council sponsored two referenda--on a nuclear weapons freeze and on Harvard divestiture from South Africa--at the request of other student groups. Both resolutions passed with about a 40 percent response rate, according to council officers...
...brink is reached. Less than 150 miles separate advancing U.S. and Soviet troops. U.S. strategic nuclear forces go on alert, but the NSC refuses their field commander's request for tactical nuclear weapons. In the end, a combination of resolve and restraint wins a kind of peace: after the NSC orders air strikes to sever the Soviet supply routes, Muskie and his U.S.S.R. counterpart exchange messages, and they agree to negotiate a pullback...
...complete the transformation of the Sears empire, Chairman Telling agreed to a request from the board of directors to stay on for 19 months past his planned retirement next May. The question of his successor is unsettled. In a company with this broad a sweep, the next chairman could come from the insurance, financial services or merchandise divisions...
...Shorten from about seven minutes to 20 seconds the time required for an identity check of a suspect. The computer identifies, dates and describes every contact the Harvard Police have recorded and can provide a printout upon request...