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TIME's splendid issue on American Renewal is marred by its reaction to the proposal for a six-year presidential term with re-election ineligibility. TIME says, "The argument [for a six-year term] is not persuasive. It is a misguided attempt to depoliticize the White House...
Compared with Moscow's goose-stepping solemnity or the glitter of a Parisian greeting, what the White House produced for the arrival of Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher last week was really quite modest. And yet it was a splendid tribute to a friend-and indeed...
Louis Ostolozaga of Manhattan College led most of the race while Dixon held to the back of the pack. The splendid sprinter then made his move with two laps to go, accelerating past Ostolozaga and the cream of the East coast's middle distance crop. Dixon broke the tape in the equivalent of a four minute mile...
...SPLENDID ART OF OPERA by Ethan Mordden; Methuen; 413 pages...
...chief value of Ethan Mordden's The Splendid Art of Opera is in just such updatings, which are the results of exhaustive research. Unfortunately, Mordden, a former editor of Opera News, has a brass ear for language: one composer, he writes, "will have to wow 'em pronto." His book is less pleasurable than utilitarian, something to thumb through for answers rather than for diversion...