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...elevated to the post of music director with "primary responsibility for artistic matters." Last week TIME learned that General Manager Chapin will step down after a stormy two-year tenure. The Met's executive committee has decided to entrust the immediate future of the company to a troika headed by Anthony A. Bliss, who was named executive director last November. Reporting to him will be Levine and John Dexter, formerly with Britain's National Theater and the Met's director of production. Levine will be only the second man in Met history to hold the title music...
...they are better than U.S. culture as a whole. What he complains about in America's tribes-within-the-tribe is not that they are too idiosyncratic but that they are not idiosyncratic enough. "Mobsters and bishops" share the same "heavy disingenuousness." Labor threatens to form an "Establishment troika with business and government." Fiery young Mafiosi will be left to "man the switchboard and analyze the computer, and be snuffed out at last by a missing credit card." Everything is losing its edge, dissolving into "uni-state." Poor Homo Americanus, looking for clues to himself in the codes...
...examination, conducted by a committee headed by Krister Stendhal, dean of the Divinity School, recommended last November that the Memorial Church post be split into a "troika" made up of a minister, priest and rabbi...
This summer there is a new challenger to the traditional troika. It's called Sticky Fingers (52 Boylston St.) and its major selling point is its prices; for a little less dazzling efficiency you can get a chocolate or coffee cone for ten cents and other flavors for a quarter...
...will be left unfilled. Nixon himself will succeed Shultz as chairman of the Cabinet-level Council on Economic Policy and, as Warren put it, "intends to play an increasingly expanded role in the coordination of economic policy." Simon will, however, inherit still another Shultz job: chairman of the economic "troika"-the Treasury Secretary, Budget Director and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers-that meets periodically to advise the President. That post should give Simon a slight edge over...