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What else lies in store? Berg's Wozzeck, perhaps. A demanding performer who turned down a request by Herbert von Karajan to sing Beckmesser because he disagreed with Karajan's concept, Prey is currently mulling a couple of offers to sing the foremost 20th century antihero. He plans to ignore the tradition of croaking and barking the role that has evolved since the challenging opera's premiere in 1925. "Berg wanted a beautiful voice," says Prey. "I want to sing every note as it is written...
...required to do was tell the head of the Q-RAC Management Committee. Assistant Dean of the College Thomas A Dingman '67 It was up to him to inform the masters of any problems. And Horner did meet with student representatives of the Quad Houses--upon their request--to give them a status report What the students and masters still say, however is that Horner could have shown a little more initiative in explaining things to them, and in applying pressure for a more rapid completion of the damage report on which the whole affair hinged...
...Administration must periodically insure Congress that the Salvadoran government is making adequate progress on human rights. The next committee hearing on the matter will take place in late January. But Congressional leaders have made it quite clear that this time, they won't back a request to give El Salvador more guns. So the Administration has tried to tighten the reins on d'Aubuisson...
...Lebanon six weeks ago, the 1,200-man U.S. contingent had been confined to relatively remote areas around Beirut International Airport, while their 1,560 French and 1,400 Italian counterparts were carrying out more visible assignments throughout the devastated city. But last week President Reagan agreed to a request by Lebanese President Amin Gemayel for additional help in providing security in the Lebanese capital. It consisted in fact of only four Jeeps, prominently displaying the Stars and Stripes and carrying three Marines each. Nonetheless, the U.S. presence in East Beirut was an important signal of the Reagan Administration...
...organizing committee for Leonid Brezhnev's funeral, no serious Kremlinologist was surprised. The signs had been pointing that way for three years, ever since a loan Andropov had applied for to buy the apartment next to Brezhnev's had been approved Since then, Andropov's bosses had granted his request for a brand new Volga sedan. And they had even given him a full extra week's paid vacation that his hadn't asked...