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Members of the Eisenhower administration and other experts on the late president met last week in Seneca Falls, N.Y., for a three-day conference on Eisenhower's changing image...
Ottone, a Roman nobleman, came home one night to discover his mistress, Poppea, in the arms of the notorious Emperor Nero. The Emperor finds time to dally with his male friend Lucano when Poppea or his Empress Ottavia is not around. Seneca, Nero's wise old mentor, advises him against marriage to Poppea and, for his counsel, is forced to commit suicide. Ottavia, whose crime is wanting to keep her husband and her throne, is exiled-set adrift alone at sea. Meanwhile, Ottone, who has tried to murder Poppea in her sleep, is banished. When Poppea finally marries Nero...
Mahler's death images in the finales bring to mind something Seneca once said--art collectors, sportsment and those preoccupied with music confront an untimely death. (Mahler's daughter died, incidentally, three years after he composed the "Tragic," and he got his three years later...
...hours after the session, Joanna Carson was at the Beverly Hills Health Club for Women. From there she phoned her brother Peter Ulrich in West Seneca, N.Y., and told him about the casino plan. Ulrich quickly bought 2,000 shares of National Kinney, which he sold over the next three months, after the Aladdin-Carson announcement, at a $4,228 profit. Joanna Carson also told Emily Johns, the health club's membership sales director, who bought 1,000 shares of National Kinney the next morning and sold them several days later for a $1,260 gain...
...times, Mazlish and Diamond descend from the simplistic into the banal. In various parts of the book, the authors compare Carter to DeGaulle, Gandhi, the young Luther (a la Erik Erikson) Oliver Cromwell and Handsome Lake, a Seneca Indian who had a series of revelations that led to his belief in his own leadership. Where other presidents are heroes or policy-makers, Carter belongs in the ranks of "revitalizers." Bear with the authors' dangling prose...