Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Governor Francis W. Sargent yesterday nominated Robert Baucher, professor of Law, as an Associate Justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Court...
...Meeker, as the ruthless moonshiner, is all sinister smiles and barely repressed violence. The music, sung by Johnny Cash, is slick and unemotional. The main flaw is that the love affair between Alma and the sheriff lacks the qualities of desperation and frustration that would make it convincing. Alvin Sargent's script does not help matters much with such ritual movie Southernisms as "Eat your beans, Grandpa" and "Would you like a Dr Pepper?" Peck succeeds in conveying the sheriff's vulnerability but never his passion...
...those purists who believe that only Isidore Godfrey can conduct G and S; I have even heard Malcolm Sargent do a good job of it. But one thing I do maintain is that Terrence Tobias cannot conduct G and S-he proved that last night. The pit orchestra's job on the overture was a disaster. The violins were out of tune, the winds were loud and over-represented, the whole piece was taken at a ridiculously slow pace, and nobody seemed to want to come in on cue. This interpretation (if you can call it that...
...Democrats have been hobbled in their anti-Agnew campaigning by a lack of prominent national figures not preoccupied with their own reelection, but they have answered fire on occasion. Sargent Shriver labeled Agnew "this nation's great divider," and the venerable John McCormack, who is about to retire as'Speaker of the House, recently accused the Administration of "playing on people's fears and dodging the issues." Said McCormack: "In all of my experience in campaigns, I have never witnessed such wholesale, patently contrived efforts to smear an entire party as that practiced by the Republicans...
...general, the Massachusetts elections were conducted far from the Nixon-Agnew dominated national spotlight. Both White and Sargent ran what was more than one time termed long and lackluster campaigns, emphasizing state and local issues...