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Richard Stone's first lesson in the delicate art of diplomacy was a rough one. In February the Administration dispatched him to persuade El Salvador's leaders to advance the date of their elections as an earnest gesture of democratic progress. It was deemed desirable that the U.S. role be secret, so that the move would seem to be a Salvadoran initiative. But on the flight back to Washington, a Tampa reporter sitting near by overheard the former Democratic Senator from Florida and his aides discussing the mission. The reporter confirmed the story with a flustered Stone...
...learn to live with nuclear weapons while preventing their use--in other words, detersons. But the effectiveness of detainee cannot be measured in absolute terms, Cap Weinberger not with sinoding. Some weapons--and some theatric--can prove destabilizing. It is probably unwise, for example, that the U.S. should seek rough parity with the Soviet Union, eschewing new weapons systems that might either frighten or tempt the Soviets...
...could have been much surprised; Joanna Pacula's healthy ambition would have persuaded her at some point to try acting in the West. But when she did go into artistic exile, it was by a strange accident, and there was a rough irony to the circumstances that made it seem that Fate's bony finger had pointed down at her from a cumulus cloud...
Stratas, all flashing dark eyes and soaring (though sometimes rough-edged) voice, dominates the action. She may be the wayward woman of the opera's title, but when she turns her killer glance on Domingo in the first act, it is clear that he is the one who is really lost. Even with a full beard and tousled head of auburn hair. Domingo cannot disguise the fact that he is at least 15 years too old for the callow hero, but he makes Alfredo into an unusually impetuous, even violent personality. As Alfredo's father, veteran Baritone Cornell...
...fact, it may be a question whether human beings really want seasons at all. Civilization's ambition for centuries has been to mitigate them, even to abolish them. The seasons in many developed latitudes are rough and unpredictable. Man wanted to subdue them, domesticate them. The logic of Progress has been to lift humanity out of the yearly cycles and into a higher trajectory. Progress was designed to be an ascendant journey, linear and always brightening, not a mere pointless circular plod around the calendar...