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...Leonard Bernstein juggled opera and Broadway with equal panache. A work such as Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd stands with one foot in each camp....
...“To be just a presence would be fatal,” he wrote in his diary in 1970, after talking with Richard Nixon at the White House....
...The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflictby Mark Leonard, Bantam Press £18.99/$36.95 Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, has written a book that has the twin merits...
...It began in 1974, Leonard explains, after Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency and capped prices in the oil industry....
...Simon Nixon, founder of MoneySuperMarket.com, is one....
...): Richard Kleindienst, former US attorney-general, Washington, DC, July 29 1976; James Skelly Wright, circuit judge, US Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit, Washington, DC, July 29 1976; Leonard...
...This timeframe meant that he would not necessarily be president when any mission took place (in the end, Richard Nixon was)....
...He refers to Leonard Bernstein as “the usual exception” on a landscape in which there “haven’t been many American composers who were accomplished orchestra conductors”; by contrast, Europeans such as Thomas...
...He also invokes Richard Nixon’s “silent majority”. Yet by his own yardstick even Reagan was a failure....
...The Plea reads like an idiosyncratic cross between Elmore Leonard and John Grisham, but bursts with its own individual flavour....
...Gertrude Leonard, a retiree whose flat overlooks the scene, was taking out the trash when she heard the gunshots. She says that although she abhors looting, the cops had responded too aggressively....
...Leonard Garment was born on May 11 1924, in a tenement apartment in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, to immigrant parents; his Lithuanian-born father and Polish mother ran a dress factory....
...Leonard Downie, former editor of The Washington Post and now professor of journalism at Arizona State University, called the Obama administration the “most militant” since Richard Nixon’s on leaks....
...They duly looked for other recruits with the same skills, and the same sporting aura, and found them in Jason Robinson and Jason Leonard....
...Her husband Leonard created their plot, which was recreated and recorded by Zoob while a National Trust tenant there....
...Anthony Burgess and Richard Nixon....
...Every president after Nixon has evoked energy independence as a prime objective....
...John Adams’ Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer (about the Middle East conflict) take their cue from recent events....
...Zimbel Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Nixon and both John and Jacqueline Kennedy are framed alongside images of city life in this retrospective of George S. Zimbel’s work....
...Memories of Nixon and Watergate fouled the air. Leonard Bernstein, idealistic to a fault, seized the moment to create a labour of conspicuous love and troubled patriotism for Broadway....
...For example, when Richard Nixon was forced out of office, he really had no choice. Now did a junta rise up? No. Were there any demonstrations by Republicans? No....
...Jazz anoraks record that Mr Greenspan once played with fellow reedsman Leonard Garment....
...My first stop was Stew Leonard’s, a landmark in Norwalk, Connecticut, known as the world’s largest dairy store....
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