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...Jimmy Carter, awaits only his official anointment next Wednesday, July 14, at Madison Square Garden. Not since 1964 have all factions of the party been so purposefully unified. The New York City convention promises all the controversy of a riverside baptism in south Georgia. But as Party Chairman Robert Strauss says serenely, "It can't get too dull for me. I've tried it the other way, and I like this a lot better...
...years, are so confident that they are cautioning each other, as Lincoln once said, not to "cackle until the egg is laid." With Viet Nam over and factions muted by quieter times as well as party reforms, no serious ideological issues divide the Democrats. Now, as Mark Siegel, a Strauss aide, observes, "there's a desire-it's almost a lust-to come together and win. Most of us hold ourselves almost personally responsible for eight years of Nixon and Ford...
...languages, a minimum of bel canto fireworks and intimate orchestration as Mozart scored it. Venetian operas now returning to the international repertory were first revived here only a decade ago under the direction of Musicologist Raymond Leppard. Glyndebourne's current showpieces are the neglected conversational operas of Richard Strauss, Capriccio and Intermezzo. They were staged for the lustrous Swedish Soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom under Administrator Moran Caplat's dictum of "hiring people we know and exploiting them at what they want to do." To succeed retiring Musical Director John Pritchard, Glyndebourne is bringing in Conductor Bernard Haitink. His crisp...
They are truly big, or so an outraged group of reporters and editors, armed with bills and price lists, told Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss at a meeting in Washington, where they vigorously protested the looting of the Fourth Estate...
Such reports did not surprise Strauss (the DNC has been hit with a $300,000 bill for removing, storing and replacing chairs in the Garden, three times higher than the original estimate), but they the press angered him−"I don't like it one damn bit." He told New York Mayor Abe Beame and Governor Hugh Carey something had to be done, complained to labor union officials, contractors and supply firms and came to New York City for a meeting with all concerned at the Statler Hilton (where double-room rates will be the standard...