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The Return of Two-Party Politics
For a full generation the Republicans have suffered from an inferiority complex, reflecting a painful awareness that they lacked political sex appeal on economic issues. After each of the five Roosevelt-Truman victories, Republican leaders found that the voting returns of any city pretty much matched its income map. In silk-stocking neighborhoods the Republicans would do well, but the lower down the economic ladder one went, the thinner the Republican vote got.
Since the depression Republican political strategy has been dominated by one driving motive—a hunt for issues or candidates which would divert popular attention from this weakness on bread and work issues. This lack of economic confidence largely explains the eagerness with which so many Republicans have capitalized on the disillusionments of foreign policy. Until the GOP regains its economic nerve, it is doubtful that it can serve as a truly stable and constructive party.
Even Eisenhower's landslide sweep of thirty-nine states did not erase the line of economic cleavage which Roosevelt drew. Eisenhower, it is true, cracked some of the strongest Roosevelt citadels. He won San Francisco, Bridgeport, and New Haven, which had not voted for a Republican President since Calvin Coolidge; also Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Seattle, Buffalo, and Rochester, which had been Democratic since 1932. In our twelve most populous cities, Eisenhower lifted the Republican share of the vote from 38 per cent in 1948 to 44 per cent.
But when one examines the Eisenhower vote in the major cities ward by ward, it still stratifies consistently along income lines. Gaining at all income levels, his vote over rode rather than wiped out the economic cleavage.
What happened was summed up by a Detroit worker. A lifelong Democrat, he was explaining why he favored Eisenhower. Mainly he was "sick of having politicians running the country" and wanted "this inflation stopped." His ten-year-old son interrupted to ask, "Daddy, what is the difference between a Democrat and a Republican?"
"That's a good question, son," the father replied. "The Republicans are for people with money and the Democrats are for us poor people.
The fact that this man was marking his ballot for Eisenhower had not wiped out his consciousness of a class conflict between the "common man" and "economic royalist" which Roosevelt had etched so sharply in the minds of millions of Americans. His sense of economic interest had simply been subordinated temporarily to other grievances.
In brief, that was the pattern of the whole of Eisenhower's victory. Warren Harding and Herbert Hoover had both won a higher percentage of the popular vote, but Eisenhower was the first Republican President since the Civil War to draw substantial electoral support from every section of the nation, from grandchildren of both Union and Confederate veterans, from both farms and cities, suburbs and slums.
He won 31 of the 57 counties which had been Democratic since Al Smith's candidacy and 278 of the 366 counties which had been Democratic since 1932. He carried counties like Brown and Union in Illinois, Brown and Dubois in Indiana, and Queen Annes in Maryland which had never voted for a Republican President before.
But if the historic significance of Eisenhower's vote lay in just this fact that it was a truly national vote which surmounted the many bitter partisan cleavages of the past, it also posed one question for future elections to decide:
Could these old antagonisms be subdued for good? Or would the past rise to reassert itself?
The first voting test—in 1954—was generally interpreted as a victory for the past. Actually, it marked the emergence of a "new look" in American voting which is likely to dominate our elections for some years to come.
Many Democrats, of course, returned to their old ballot markings. Some had voted for Eisenhower in conscious defiance of what they considered their economic interest because of the Korean war. Others had used the Eisenhower "crusade" as a means of purging their own party. As a lawyer in suburban Riverside, near Chicago, put it, "I'm not sorry I went for Eisenhower. The Democrats were in too long. But we've had the change and I still feel the Democrats are more the party of the little fellow."
But the 1954 voting also tore loose old allegiances. A cheesemaker in Des Moines, a railway express worker in Boston, a television shop owner in Minneapolis, a clerk in Detroit, a used-car dealer in Columbus, a Negro factory worker in Newark—in nearly every city I sampled during the campaign some persons told me, "There was so much depression talk in 1952 I was afraid to vote for Eisenhower, but I'd go Republican in 1956."
Others, like Joseph Schultz, a young Cincinnati salesman, had feared "a military man might get us into war." In 1954 Schultz swung Republican, explaining, "I'm better off than ever. I like being out of war for a change."
The closeness of the 1954 voting led to much talk of how confusing the election seemed. By and large, though, the results were a remarkably accurate reflection of economic conditions as they varied in different parts of the country. Where the downturn from 1952 was sharp, as in Michigan and Minnesota, the Democrats swept in. Where the level of prosperity was high, the Republicans held their own or even picked up voters.
In the shuffle of ballots, one item of striking significance was widely overlooked—in a vote dominated by pocketbook considerations the Republicans had come close to running the Democrats a dead heat.
The booming prosperity since 1954 has strengthened further the Republican economic appeal. Among farmers the Republicans have been weakened appreciably by the decline in farm prices. But in urban and industrial areas the old "hard times" imprint that has been the chief Republican liability has been fading—just how fast is the question that probably will decide the 1956 election.
Younger voters, in particular, who did not live through the depression, are inclined to credit the GOP with their economic advancement of recent years. In one middle-class neighborhood in Detroit, a young man was loading his wife and two children into a car when I asked whom he voted for in 1952.
"Stevenson," he replied. That was my first vote, but I'm going Republican now.
"We've just bought a new home," he went on. "Besides, I've been promoted to the administrative side of my company. It's shown me that there's another side to the story of how a company is run besides what the workers see. I never appreciated that before."
There has been enough shifting of this sort so that, in a talk before the National Editorial Writers Conference in the fall of 1955, I expressed the judgment that the odds favored a Republican victory in 1956. That did not mean the Republicans could win with any candidate, I explained, but if the boom continued they would be able to go to the country with the economic edge in their favor for the first time since "those Hoover times."
Still, it is also my judgment that neither party is likely to win a truly decisive majority before 1960 and possibly not until 1964.
Part of the Republican problem, of course, is the wide gap between Eisenhower's personal popularity and how people feel about the Republican party. On one Cleveland street in 1954, three voters declared, "I'd vote for Eisenhower but I have no use for the Republican party." One of these persons went so far as to say, "I'm for Eisenhower because he's a pretty good Democrat."
But my main reason for feeling that a decisive victory lies beyond either party's reach has little to do with Eisenhower personally. My judgment is based on what seem the main forces behind the truly "big news" of the 1954 election—the dramatic reappearance of a real, nationwide two-party politics.
Only rarely has the United States had two evenly competing parties. The usual pattern has been for one clearly dominant party to hold office until its following divided, as with the Republicans until split by the Bull Moose Roosevelt. The advent of the New Deal did not alter this pattern but switched the role of the parties, with the Democrats becoming the majority sun in our political solar system and the Republicans the minority moon.
But the 1954 voting demonstrated that there no longer was a "normal," decisive majority on which either party could count. In New Jersey and Connecticut only 3,000-odd ballots provided the margin of victory; in Oregon less than 2,500; in New York Averell Harriman won by 11,125. In all, fourteen Senatorial and gubernatorial contests were settled by less than two per cent of the vote. Outside the South a mere 34,000 votes was the difference between the Democratic and Republican totals for Congress.
To find a period in our history when the major parties were so jealously close, one would have to turn back beyond the voting span of all but a few venerable octogenarians. Between 1877 and 1896 the national political balance was so precariously poised that no party could win the Presidency twice in succession or hold control of both houses of Congress for two terms running.
"This country needs two parties" has long been a favorite slogan of reformers. Yet hardly any of us have had any living experience with such a political situation. So novel a development merits further scrutiny. Why should a genuine two-party politics reappear in the United States at this time? Does it promise to aid or obstruct us in meeting the tests of world leadership?
Most observers assumed that the 1954 stand-off vote was brought about primarily by a resurgence of Democratic strength. But if the returns are examined county by county and ward by ward, one finds that through most of the country the Republicans actually held a good part of Eisenhower's gains over 1948. At the same time, though, they failed to hold their strength in areas considered as religiously Republican.
Of the five states where the GOP Congressional vote fell 10 per cent or more from 1952—Kentucky, Wisconsin, Vermont, Maine, and North Dakota—three have regularly ranked among the top Republican states in the nation. Of thirty-two contested districts where the GOP candidates for Congress dropped at least ten percentage points from 1952, five never voted Democratic through the entire New Deal period, while another ten have been Republican since 1940.
Puzzled at what stirred behind this shift, I went into three staunchly Republican counties—Geauga in Ohio, Isabella in Michigan, and Bedford in Pennsylvania—where the Democratic percentage jumped considerably above 1948. This meant that in each of these counties not only had the Democrats who voted for Eisenhower swung back, but they had been joined by normally Republican voters as well.
In all three counties, Eisenhower voters who had gone Democratic offered the same explanation. "The Republicans around here have been in too long. We wanted a change."
"This county is ready for two-party politics," declared John Gore, who edits the weekly Geauga Record. "We're tired of being taken for granted any more. This county got on the Republican bandwagon during the Civil War and has never been off it since. The local machine thinks we have to vote for anyone they put up. It's time we were given a real choice."
This desire for an alternative party through which voters can make their interests felt has gained surprising force since the war's end. In some cases it reflects the feeling that "the only way to prevent corruption is to change parties regularly." Even in overwhelmingly Republican suburbs, as in Bergen County, New Jersey, Democratic mayors have been elected in revolts against the corruption of local Republican machines. Similarly, in Boston, one city employee confessed to me, "I used to think I had to vote the Democratic ticket even if the biggest horse thief was running. But by splitting my ticket I figure we get more honest men."
With many more voters, though, the turn toward a two-party politics reflects the effects of the vast economic changes which have been transforming the country. Particularly since the end of World War II there has been a dramatic upgrading in the economic status of most Americans. The decentralization of industry is shooting shafts of industrial feeling into the hitherto rustic countryside. With the power of government growing ever more important, every economic group has become more sensitive to the need of making its own interests felt in Washington.
Thus far, at least, the net political effect of these and other changes appears to be a trend toward evening out the strength of both parties.
The spectacular population shift to the suburbs, for example, has thrown up Republican bulwarks which come close to counterbalancing the Democratic strongholds in the cities. In 1952, in fact, for the first time the commuter country around New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee rolled up heavier majorities for the Republicans than these cities gave the Democrats.
Close to half of Eisenhower's total plurality in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New York State was furnished by the suburbs around Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York City. In 1920, as can be seen below, these same suburbs furnished less than 10 per cent of the total Republican plurality in the three states.
|Philadelphia suburbs
|N. Y. suburbs
|Chicago suburbs
In the decisive industrial states, in other words, the rural-urban cleavage of the 1920's is being replaced by a new struggle of the suburbs against the cities.
This change, in turn, reflects a growing tendency for all voting throughout the country to divide along economic class lines. The New Deal unloosed powerful trends which have been working to nationalize the basis of American politics. These trends have been quickened and extended by the Eisenhower Presidency.
But if considerations of economic class are becoming more, not less, important in American politics, it should be noted that this "class conflict" is more a "war of movement" within a mobile social structure than one of trench attrition between rigid, unchanging social halves.
The table which follows profiles the distinctive nature of class conflict in the United States. It shows that changes in the relative solidarity of the upper- and lower-income groups move together. In 1936 the workers in the cities were militant in their unison, while the better-income elements in the suburbs were divided almost evenly. By 1952 a complete about-face had taken place. The center of gravity of class solidarity had shifted to the suburbs and the cities were divided within themselves.
|Per Cent Republican
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|Nearby suburbs
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|Nearby suburbs
|Vote in city
|Nearby suburbs
|Los Angeles
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|Nearby suburbs
Compared with 1948, Eisenhower gained more heavily in the cities than in the suburbs, indicating that many of the newer suburbanites the GOP won in 1952 would have voted Republican even if they had stayed in the cities. In fact, this table shows that the same forces which have solidified the well-to-do have simultaneously divided the workers. My talks with numerous voters in recent years leave little doubt that, economically, this change reflects mainly a growing sensitivity to inflation and, with it, a stiffened resistance against "government going too far."
In 1936, of course, there was nothing to distract the mass of workers from a single-minded devotion to the New Deal. Fresh in their memories tingled all the depression grievances. More than $500 million were still frozen in locked banks. Of the total national tax burden, only 5 per cent was borne by incomes under $5,000, which was where Roosevelt drew his greatest political strength.
By 1952 roughly a third of the tax burden was being borne by incomes under $5,000. This new tax consciousness was stimulated further by the sizable migration out of apartment houses, where taxes are hidden in the rent, to home-owning with its sundry local taxes. By 1952, as well, the volume of savings held by individuals and subject to depreciation by inflation had more than tripled, soaring from $60 to $216 billion.
In short, the main force generating the current trend toward conservatism will be found in the economic gains since the depression. These gains hold the secret to the puzzle of why neither the Democrats nor Republicans are able to achieve a decisive majority.
For to some millions of voters both parties symbolize a threat to these gains in different ways.
Many commentators and scholars, of course, contend that "there isn't any real difference" between our two parties. Certainly there have been times in the past when, as Matt Quay, the old Pennsylvania boss, observed, a Democrat seemed like "only a left-handed Republican." But at least since the New Deal the voting public has not shared this belief that our parties provide little more choice than between Tweedledem and Tweedlerep.
Over the last decade I have asked thousands of voters in every part of the country, "Just what difference do you see between our two parties?" The striking thing that emerges is how uniform is the consensus on what the parties stand for.
On foreign policy the Democrats are considered the party of foreign intervention, even, as some persons feel, the party that is "always getting us into wars," while the Republicans are regarded as the party of "isolationism" or less involvement abroad.
Economically, the Democrats are looked upon as "the party of the working man," inflation, and government spending, while the Republicans symbolize "big business" and "people with money," deflation, and less government spending.
Another difference commonly cited is that the Democrats are the favored political home for Catholics and other minority groups, while the Republican party, at least in the North, is still seen as largely a Protestant bulwark.
Each party's following cuts across these battle lines, of course. Still, the strength these stereotypes exert can be seen in the readiness with which people align themselves according to these images almost without second thought. Asked why he had switched to being a Republican, one Minnesotan grinned and replied, "I'll tell you the truth. I married a wife with some money."
Again, one Milwaukee housewife remarked that she was shifting to Eisenhower because she was tired of arguing with her husband. "He's a Republican and I'm a Democrat. Every four years I've had to listen to him tell me what's wrong with the Democrats. I finally told him all right, have it your way. Let's see what your Republicans will do."
"Why do you and your husband differ so strongly in politics?" I asked.
"Oh, his father is in business so he thinks he has to be a Republican," she retorted. "I come from a family where everyone had to work hard for a living. We're all Democrats."
The depth of emotion behind these attitudes largely explains why so many voters find it difficult to choose decisively between the parties. For if the Republicans remain the "party of bad times" to many voters, others feel "the Democrats can't stay out of war." Similarly, farmers or workers will remark, "The Democrats have always done more for people like us," only to add, "But they don't know when to stop spending." Or the same man or woman will complain, "There's too much money in Eisenhower's cabinet," and then observe, "But the Democrats lean too much to labor."
Caught among these conflicting fears, a sizable part of the electorate has developed what might be described as a strong case of political insomnia, tossing from one party bed to another. Many voters have told me they shift their votes from one election to the next to "keep either party from getting too strong." Other voters have swung between the parties as their fears of inflation and depression have risen and fallen.
At least since 1948 this inflation-depression equilibrium has constituted the balance of political power in the country. When the threat of another depression has seemed the chief threat to the gains of recent years, as in 1948, the dominant voting trend has favored the Democrats. By 1950, and even more so by 1952, the inflationary impact of the Korean war had swung the balance against "too much spending" and "too much government." In 1954 the scales tipped back again, coming to rest in almost dead-weight evenness.
Many observers attributed the change between the 1952 landslide and the 1954 stand-off to Eisenhower's not being on the ticket in 1954. But the real difference between the two elections was not one of personalities.
In 1952 the public's thinking was dominated by the bloody stalemate in Korea. On that issue the popular mood was to demand a decision—to get the war over with one way or another. In 1954, however, the dominant issue was economic. On that issue millions of voters did not fully trust either party.
What the decisive margin of voters wanted was clear enough. They wanted to stay squarely in the "middle," avoiding depression and war, deflation and inflation, too much or too little government, too heavy a preponderance of influence for either business or labor.
This, of course, adds up to the same goal of "moderate government" which Eisenhower professed during the 1954 campaign. But where Eisenhower sought to convince the public that moderation could best be attained through the Republican party, the people preferred to seek it by using each party as a check upon the other.
Near McLeansboro, in southern Illinois, to give one example, Carroll Phillips, who combines preaching in a Baptist church with farming, felt Eisenhower was doing a "fine job" and deserved re-election. But when I asked about Eisenhower's campaign arguments that a President should have a Congress of the same party, Phillips replied, "It's better to have it split up so neither party has too much say."
This widespread distrust of both parties, I suspect, explains why so many people have talked of Eisenhower as being "above both parties," despite his strenuous activity on behalf of the GOP. It is not that the people are being fooled but that they want a President before whom they can deposit their mistrusts of both parties.
That this feeling does not reflect Eisenhower's personal charm is indicated by the popularity of many other politicians who are "liberal" on some issues and "conservative" on others, like Senators Paul Douglas, Stuart Symington, and Irving Ives. Through such "hybrid" candidates the voters can pick the traits they like about both parties.
Since 1954 this desire for two evenly balanced parties has grown stronger in the farm belt. In the urban areas the conservative yearning to "hold on to what we have" can be expected to help the party in power as long as economic conditions are good. Still, booming prosperity does not seem to have overcome the desire to hedge one's fears of the uncertain future by balancing one party against the other.
This mistrust of both parties helps explain why the realignment now under way differs so markedly from that which followed Roosevelt's rise to power.
The reshuffling of party loyalties precipitated by the New Deal was a mass affair, with whole groups of voters swinging virtually en masse. Basically this was made possible by the fact that when Roosevelt came into office he quickly transformed what the Democratic party meant to people.
Negroes, for example, had remained loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln in 1932, despite all their depression hardships. By 1936, however, they had swung with equal solidarity to the party which had introduced WPA and given every Negro a minimum standard below which his wages could not be cut, since he could then go on relief.
Similarly, the bulk of workers, who had never felt there was too much choice between the parties during the 1920's, marched virtually as a bloc into what many termed the new "labor party."
In contrast the Republican gains of recent years have come through a shifting of individuals, not groups. At every income level and among all social classes, one finds some families who have turned Republican, but there has not yet been any dramatic conversion of whole blocs of voters.
This slow tempo of realignment can be attributed to the curious paradox that both the voters and the country have changed so much more than have the symbols attached to the parties.
To sum up, the usual agitation for a "real two-party politics" has come from those who wanted to draw a sharp line of cleavage which would force all "conservatives" into one party and all "liberals" into the other. But the reappearance of a two-party politics at this perilous point in our history has virtually nothing in common with any such motive. Instead of seeking to sharpen the party cleavage, it is aimed at moderating both parties and using them to preserve the gains of the last two decades.
What has happened, in short, is that the moderate elements, by refusing to cast their lot with either party, have forced both the Democrats and Republicans to turn their backs on the extremists in their ranks and to fight for the middle ground where the balance of victory lies.
Nothing quite like this revolt of the moderates has ever taken place before, and it may be several years before its full and novel implications are fully understood. Usually in the past when large numbers of Americans became dissatisfied with both parties, they gave vent to their grievance through third parties. From 1876 until McKinley's election the numerous third parties, from Greenbackers to Populists, prevented any President from gaining a full majority of the popular vote. In both 1876 and 1888 the winner actually got fewer votes than the loser.
These third-party insurgencies were sparked by a belief that the only real difference between the Democratic and Republican parties was that each was a custodian of different feelings toward the Civil War. Apart from that, many persons felt the parties were so alike that the truly crucial economic issues of the day could not be brought to conflict.
Today's revolt against both parties is clearly a quite different affair. It comes after a bitter period of party strife during which the Democrats and Republicans differed sharply on both economic issues and foreign policy. If the 1876-96 period could be said to have been marked by a search for ideological issues which would draw the parties apart, the dominant trend today can be visualized as a struggle to shed old ideologies.
But this reappearance of two-party politics also brings a double danger.
With both the Democrats and Republicans committed to preserving the gains of the last generation, our parties have become, as one voter pictured them, "like two fat men in a narrow hall." They cannot squeeze past each other. Either they move in the same direction or remain stuck in unbudging deadlock.
One danger, in other words, is of stalemate rather than balance. The second risk is that both parties may indeed move in the same direction—but against the interests of our foreign policy and security in the world.
The closeness of the voting balance tends to enhance the bargaining power of every major voting interest. Each is in a position to threaten to upset the party in power by withholding or swinging its support. While these rival pressures offset each other to some extent, they tend to elevate the needs of domestic conciliation over the needs of waging the cold war abroad. For fear of upsetting the delicate political balance at home, both parties may shy from the military or economic actions which might be needed to meet new developments in the cold war.
Take the raging argument over how much of a defense expenditure we can afford. The contention that our economy "cannot stand" more is certainly not valid in any physical sense. Industrial production has been pushed a full tenth higher than during the peak of World War II, while our labor force has been expanded by several millions. Obviously, the resources and facilities are available for an even heavier defense effort than was undertaken in World War II. No proposed program of defense and foreign aid combined calls for more than a part of what was done during the war years.
The ceiling on how much of a cold war effort we can stand is political, not economic. It is set primarily by the American people's sense of the urgency of the crisis before them and the amount of political will power that can be marshaled to see through the costs of what is undertaken.
It is at this sticking point of political will power that the delicate party balance exacts its price. With inflation made a constant threat by the domestic boom, it does not take much to upset the balance among various segments of the economy. Yet, as the 1954 elections revealed, voters have become so sensitive to their economic interests that even moderate changes in economic conditions can shift the party balance.
The internal resistances limiting the power we can exercise in foreign affairs have been strengthened by a curious illusion that has developed in recent years—that no one needs to pay for the cold war.
That, at least, is the implication of the attitude which has been adopted by all of the major economic interests. All have taken as the measure of their well-being the income left them after taxes are paid. Labor, for example, contends that a steady rise in its take-home pay is needed to keep mass purchasing power high; business has insisted that higher earnings and dividends are necessary to continue a high rate of investment in new plants.
But if everyone is to be better off, net, after taxes are paid, who is to foot the bill for the cold war, which has been taking about a seventh of our national income?
One result, of course, is a struggle among the various segments of the economy to shift the cost of the cold war elsewhere.
Up to now these internal conflicts and distrusts have been tempered by the obviousness of the Soviet peril. If, however, the Soviets cut this service of alarm, it is likely to become more difficult to divert our economic resources to the needs of peace. This prospect becomes all the more ominous if the cold war shifts to areas where economic weapons may be as important as military strength.
Stiffened resistance to unbalancing the budget must be expected if the danger of war seems to recede. The pressures for reducing taxes are also likely to mount.
Nor, in view of the prevailing temper of "moderation," can we even count on our politicians giving us the opportunity to take the harder choice of a more strenuous cold war effort. The same competition of the parties to become accepted as the vehicle of "middle-road conservatism" also puts a premium on domestic conciliation even at the expense of our security in the world, particularly if the threats to national security seem less immediate than the next election.
We cannot assume that what is good for each of us—the preservation of our individual gains—is necessarily good for the country as a whole. Situations may arise in which we shall be torn by a considerable conflict between preserving our gains at home and winning the cold war abroad. In the years ahead, it will be by our very gains of the last twenty-five years that our national character will be tested.


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March 8 coalition lawmakers Ali Fayyad and Ali Bazzi in Parliament in Beirut on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. (The Daily Star/Mahmoud Kheir)
BEIRUT: Rival lawmakers failed once more Saturday to reach a unified stance on a new electoral law to govern the upcoming elections and Speaker Nabih Berri called for the joint parliamentary committees to convene next week.
Berri said the joint committees tasked with studying a new electoral law would meet for four consecutive days starting Feb. 18, with two sessions allocated per day.
The subcommittee, which includes MPs from the March 8 and the March 14 parties, held a two-part, final session on different proposals for a hybrid electoral law that combines proportional representation with a winner-takes-all system.
Media reports Saturday said lawmakers appeared set on recommending Berri's hybrid electoral proposal to the joint parliamentary committees.
Berri's proposal calls for electing 64 lawmakers, half of the seats in Parliament, on the basis of proportional representation with the rest voted in through a winner-takes-all system.
Chairman of the subcommittee MP Robert Ghanem said the lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on any of the hybrid proposals.
"We've come a long way in our discussions although the meetings did not result in any consensual, unified viewpoint on any of the proposals," he told reporters in Parliament.
"Therefore we will refer the minutes of the meetings to Speaker Berri," Ghanem said at the end of the session.
He added that talks touched on several hybrid proposals presented by the Kataeb Party, the Progressive Socialist Party, the Lebanese Forces and that of the Future Movement.
"The draft laws had some commonalities at some point and discussions centered on the percentage of lawmakers elected under a certain voting system, the size of districts," Ghanem added.
This was the subcommittee's second round of discussions in a bid to reach a consensus over an electoral proposal for the June elections.
Lebanese Forces MP George Adwan described earlier Saturday the session as divisive, adding that MPs would rank the proposals before they referred the minutes of the meeting to Berri.
"Today's meeting is the last one because everything has been discussed and we are now in front of options and this session will be decisive in terms of referring its report to the joint committees," he told LBCI.
"The committee will rank the proposals today, meaning that whichever proposal is closest to the criteria we have put will be referred to the joint committees for a possible consensus," Adwan added.
The subcommittee is tasked with looking into the type of voting system, the number of districts and the possibility of increasing the number of MPs in Lebanon's 128-seat Parliament.
Adwan submitted a hybrid proposal Friday which he said excluded items that were rejected by rival parties and was added to the pool of other similar proposals presented by Kataeb MP Sami Gemayel and Future Movement Ahmad Fatfat.
In an interview with An-Nahar published Saturday, Berri said the Orthodox Gathering proposal would be the focus of discussions at the joint committees if MPs failed to agree on one single proposal.
"I am waiting for the final decision from the subcommittee with regard to a hybrid law or else the joint committees will have the Orthodox Gathering proposal at the forefront of discussions," he said.
President Michel Sleiman, the Future Movement, MP Walid Jumblatt's bloc and a few Christian figures have opposed the Orthodox draft law, saying it only deepens existing sectarian divide in the country.
However, the law has received the support of the majority of Christian parties with the backing of Hezbollah and Amal Movement.
Marada Movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh said Saturday he along with his MPs would vote for the Orthodox Gathering if it is put to a vote in Parliament.
"We would go to Parliament to vote in favor of the Orthodox law if it was put to a vote and if we reach such a stage because it is still best and achieves fair representation," Franjieh told reporters after meeting with the head of the Lebanese Democratic Party Talal Arslan.
The head of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun renewed his support for the Orthodox proposal in what appeared to be a response to Sleiman's threat to challenge the plan if it was enacted by Parliament.
Aoun said Sleiman would not be able to challenge the Orthodox proposal as "unconstitutional" if it was referred to and approved in Parliament.
"I tell the president not to bother. The [electoral] law is an election system and has nothing to do with the Constitution," he said in remarks published by Al-Akhbar newspaper Friday.
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Having had aggressive prostate cancer picked up by yearly screening for prostate specific antigen (PSA), I can speak for the usefulness of this blood test (4 August, p 12).
My prostate was small and had no irregularities. At 59 years of age, I did occasionally have to get up in the night to urinate, but otherwise was symptom-free. My PSA level spiked from the previous year, and a test a month later showed a further moderate increase. A biopsy of my "normal" prostate revealed that I had aggressive cancer.
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British printing firm St. Ives, best known for printing the Harry Potter book series, has been "hit by a major scandal" after "serious accounting errors" were revealed. The errors occurred in the firm's point-of-sale division (customers include Marks & Spencer and WH Smith Bookseller) and resulted in the firing of the person responsible. The errors reduce the St. Ives' annual profits by £2.8 million, which caused the company's shares to tumble by 10%.


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Embark on a safari adventure with this super fun jungle-themed baby shower! If you were born to be wild, a safari theme baby shower is perfect and we aren't lion! Jungle themed baby showers are a fantastic way to celebrate a new baby and the Queen of the Jungle without being too masculine or feminine. Fun animal prints, faux jungle creatures and Kraft paper turn any room into an African safari where guests will enjoy games, gifts and goodies…. All perfectly fit to the theme!
Safari Theme Baby Shower Invitations
Sending printed jungle animal print shower invitations are an easy way to let your guests know the theme of the baby shower and get them in the mood for a jungle shower. Address your invitations to your 'jungle VIPs' and decorate the invitations with pictures of monkeys swinging from branches, or order your invitations with any number of jungle designs, from lions, tigers and bears, oh my! If you're feeling creative, be sure to include a verse or poem along the lines of the jungle theme. For example 'come prepared for monkey fun and celebrate the birth of Sarah's son. You're welcome at the appointed hour, to this jungle baby shower!'
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If you have an imagination and a passion to create beautiful events then go "WILD" with the decorations. For the jungle baby shower it is really easy to mix up the colors. Deciding on your shower decorations first helps you to come up with a color scheme. Welcome guests with a cute chalkboard sign and adorable monkeys hanging from the trees. Dress the monkeys up in cute baby safari or animal print onesies. Another cute idea is to use your wood fence in your backyard to make a great backdrop. Hang banners using animal print paper and string it along the fence. Decorate doorways with hanging vines and/or leaves. Place tall potted plants and greenery everywhere, especially around the "Queen of the Jungle".
One idea's we have come across is to make an amazing paper palm tree or two for your jungle shower. They were made by cutting leaf shapes out of used brown paper grocery bags. Crumple up the bags as much as possible to give them a weathered and "veiny" look. Spray paint the front and the backs of each leaf with a high-gloss white paint. The paint won't cover the crumpled parts giving it the weathered and leafy look you're after. Starting with a Styrofoam ball as your base (the below example was approx 8" diameter) hot glue the leaves around the ball in layers until you're tree is as full as you want it to be. In the example below they started with the larger leaves around the bottom and went with smaller ones at the top. Poke a hole on the bottom of the Styrofoam ball to insert your tree base. They used a gum tree branch in the picture below but any other branch or wooden dowel could work as well. Voila! You have your very own Palm Tree! If you don't like the white look play around with others colors.
Other fun ideas are to fill glass vases, apothecary jars or jumbo brandy glasses with various green and brown candies adorned with raffia and safari themed tags that match your invitations and decorations. Add a festive vibe with fun and vibrant safari print paper lanterns – just hang them with fishing wire or ribbon!
Opt for a jungle-inspired table to add to your safari décor – use a grass skirt and banana leaf table runners. Hang mosquito netting from the center focal point hovering over the food table, creating a whimsical feel. Or set the table with burlap fabric and an animal print runner, which can be picked up at any fabric store and left unfinished for a rustic feel. Or get really creative and use animal print baby blankets as the table runners which double as a safari themed baby shower gift for the mom to be. Wrap the silverware in a napkin and tie with coordinating ribbon.
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It is always fun when your food adds to theme of your party. Salads can be a great main dish for a safari spread since they are food of the jungle. Appetizers wrapped with large leaves make for a beautiful presentation. Use green napkins, decorated with toothpicks and even leaf cut outs as place mats will give the table an outdoor feel. Fruit trays with lots of bananas, oranges, kiwi and grapes are also a great safari themed food. Paper food signs, brown wrapped food stands and tropical food dish names are an additional fun touch. Serve the food in wood, wicker or rustic platters. To play with heights, overturn tree-like vases and top with your platters. Make a silly safari snake submarine sandwich. Shape the bread dough to curve or use a standard long submarine sandwich bun and cut it in small sections to form the "S" shape. A fantastic drink is a tropical punch mixed with either champagne or ginger ale served in mason jars on a jungle inspired desert table tie together the theme as well.
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For party favors, animal print Chinese take-out containers filled with party favors are adorable for the guests to take home. Fill them with tropical trail mix, animal crackers or candy bars with Jungle theme wrappers. Or give your guests the potted plants you used as decorations as party favors.
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Remember, the safari baby shower theme can be elegant and sophisticated yet very playful and child-like at the same time – it is all in the details! If you are planning a jungle baby shower make the most of a great opportunity to celebrate and get creative. Your guests will thank you!
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'Ghost Whisperer': The cat is outta the bag
There's a new ghostbusting guy in town, and he's got all the gadgets and whiz-bang cameras a non-Ghost Whisperer could want. Is he the real deal, or just in it for the money? And our soul-crossed Sam finally finds out what Melinda's really all about, and not in the way she was hoping for.
Sam and Melinda run into a wanna-be ghost hunter outside the house of one of her friends. Linus the ghostbuster is called in to solve some spooky activity. On Melinda's suggestion, Eli heads in to find out if he's the real deal, or a charlatan. That evening, Linus does indeed pick up evidence of a ghost on this computers, but Eli of course hears the ghost screaming. Linus is the real thing - he just isn't able to hear or see spirits, so he uses all the technology he can to find ghosts. After some sleuthing, Eli and Linus both come to the conclusion that the ghost is probably of the last owner of the house, Mrs. Bellsbury, who passed away recently, or was murdered for her life's savings. Dum dum dum.
While Melinda wanted to deal with Linus the ghostbuster, she decides to let Eli take the lead so she could deal with Sam. After the brief encounter with Linus, he scoffs at the idea of ghosts, and she realizes that she's not going to be able to just blurt out her big secret. It's going to need some finessing. But Sam knows something is up, and starts asking around about Melinda to Delia and Eli.
Because she can't leave it alone, Melinda heads to the haunted house, and along with Eli and Linus, they chase the ghost into the basement. Turns out the ghost isn't Mrs. Bellsbury, but a man, who leads them to the skeletal remains of poor Mrs. Bellsbury, with her savings, behind a false wall. Linus believes he's solved the mystery, but Melinda knows that the ghost is still around, and strangely enough, the ghost seems to be more tied to Linus than to the house.
Linus confesses to Eli that he believes he has a guardian angel that helps him out, and after Melinda talks to Linus' ex-girlfriend Carrie, who bankrolled the whiz-bang cameras, she realizes that it's Carrie's dead father who is helping Linus' out in order to make him a success. That way, Carrie and Linus can get back together and all can be well. Guardian angel indeed.
But back to Sam. Eli tells Sam that Melinda is a profiler for the FBI, and that's why she's always interested in these missing person cases. But when Sam confronts Linus about being a fake, Melinda defends Linus, and tells Sam that ghosts are real, and that she can see them. Not exactly the finessed situation she was hoping for.
In the end, Eli and Melinda both help Carrie's dad cross over, and Melinda is left in tears realizing that her gift may be the one thing that stands between her and Sam. But the next morning, Sam apologizes, and says that he's just going to need some time to get used to the ghost whispering.
But while it might look all happy and rosy now, the kicker is a bit threatening to their happy ending. You didn't think it was going to be that easy, did you? Now that Delia is a believer, we need someone else to work through their doubts. Looks like it's going to be Sam, which may just carry us to the end of the season. I predict some big finale with the watcher women.
While it wasn't dead people in the lake spooky, this had it's spooky moments. And I like the spooky. And it was interesting to see a twist on the "ghost hunter" take. What if the ghosts follow the hunters around?
This was the first episode that Jamie Kennedy didn't somehow annoy me. Maybe it was the night vision googles.
Carrie's dad was played by Michael O'Neill, who played the Secret Service guy Ron Butterfield on The West Wing for years. And Carrie was played by Jenna Leigh Green who was Libby on Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Oh yeah. I went there.
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Megaupload prospects look dim; other file-sharing services take notice
January 22, 2012 | 8:35 pm
By Chris Meadows
Dreamwidth blogger synecdochic has taken an in-depth look at the allegations against Megaupload and agrees with Ars that the prospects look dim for the company's execs. The problem is not so much what Megaupload did—indeed, synecdochic suggests that a sufficiently skilled legal team would have had a decent chance to get the execs off the hook for a lot of it, except for the real problem.
The real problem is that Megaupload's employees regularly emailed each other to discuss how wicked they were—and the company kept email logs that the feds could—and did—subpoena, providing more than enough rope to hang them most effectively.
In short, there are about three dozen ways in which Megaupload could have structured their site and their business to be able to successfully argue that the primary uses of it were non-infringing, and therefore they should be covered under the "capable of substantial noninfringing uses" guideline set forth in A&M Records Inc vs Napster Inc and the safe-harbor provisions of OCILLA and the DMCA. At each decision point that could have led to such a defense, they appear to have deliberately, willfully, and gleefully taken the opposite route. And then written emails about it. And saved them. For a long time.
I do not see this case ending well for them.
In related news, Megaupload has dropped Universal Music from the list of defendants in its lawsuit over the Megaupload song takedown. It seems to be focusing on suing Google now for not providing assurance Youtube videos would be retained. And Hong Kong Customs has frozen $39 million of Megaupload assets.
Meanwhile, Gizmodo reports that file sharing and storage service FileSonic has apparently seen the writing on the wall—it just removed the "sharing" part of its service, changing itself into a service that can be used only for retrieving files that you have uploaded personally. The article also notes that file service Uploaded.to has also closed down, at least for US users.
It's a little worrying what might happen if a service like Dropbox followed suit. Apart from the many other legitimate things its users do with it, one of those is the ability to create an on-line e-book library with Calibre that can then be accessed anywhere from apps like Stanza or IbisReader simply by plugging a public URL into the app. No public URL ability would mean that those apps wouldn't be able to access the library anymore.
Of course, it still remains to be seen whether the DoJ will take similar actions against other file sharing services. It's hard to imagine that any of them could have been quite as dumb as Megaupload—and if they had been, I expect they're busy remedying the matter now.
Morning Links: Comixology Subscription Plan? New Movie Anti-Piracy Ads Aimed at Moviegoers
Why own media when you can rent the library?
Do You Know How to Pirate?
Morning Links: Pretending piracy doesn't exist. Changing roles of bookstores and libraries
Morning Links: Illegal music file sharing virtually eliminated in Norway. Auditing media habits
Megaupload this matter is really going to effect internet users a lot. I don't know about others but I'm disappointed because of such fact. I hope soon they'll sort out a way. Thanks
What if those companies took out their own sites to try and win support for SOPA?? It's easy to label these "hackers" as terrorist and convince the powers that be that the bill is a necessary evil. Hacking so many sites seems too easy. If a group of hackers could bring down those sites anytime they chose to do so, they would have done it weeks ago.
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Trippin' in and out of the Rednek Republik
I thought it would be considerate of me to share some of the dumb stuff I sometimes take for granted here in the Rednek Republic of North Idaho. Over the past few years, these gallavants sometimes penetrate in the communist state of Washington, as well as into Oregon and Montana. I'm fairly indiscrimanate about where I go so this could lead anywhwere. I figure that this year i will just try to regularly add few blurbs and photos of the ramblings I make here in the PNW.
EDIT!! The nonsense in this thread has gone on now for several years, so I thought I would create a brief summary of what can be found where in the pages of this thread. I will also give you a couple links to other trip reports I have written-up, in case you are curious or just bored. Most all of the rides point of origin is in Coeur d'Alene Idaho, and eventually end here too. I generally travel pretty light, pick back road routes, avoid crowded places, and often camp off the bike for the weekend or longer.. here ya go:
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Lake CdA and Harrison, ID
A trip to Palouse Falls, and Starbuck WA
A long weekend to Lewiston, Elk City, Hells Canyon, and the Palouse
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A quick campout in Central Oregon.
Wallace, Quinss Hot Spring, Bison Land, and Missoula
Kenny & Jimmy ride to Glacier Pk.. including Yaak, Koocanusa, and Eureka
2-Up trip to Mt St Helens, with a visit in Packwood.
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Eagles on Lake CdA
A spring ride to Ione Oregon
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The North Fork of the CdA River with Murray and Wallace.
Camping at Dworshak Reservoir and trippin to Aquarius, and Hells Gate
Canfield Mtn on the DRZ
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(cont from pg 4) A four day loop to Missoula, Salmon, Stanley, Lowman, McCall, Riggins, Whitebird, Kooskia.
A St Joe River Fishing trip.
Up a creek on the DRZ- the CdA River and Shoshone Creek.
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A ride through time and Chesaw
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Pedal bikes on the St Joe.
Ring around Hauser Lake
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This year (2012) we have had a LOT of cold rainy weather to kick off our Spring so it has been a sloowww start, but a couple weeks ago i was time to roust out the beast and get moving around a bit.
It started with this.
Then a trip to my mom's garage, cuz she has some extra space.
Finally out into the daylight.
After getting a new front tire installed it was time to take a little spin around Lake Coeur d'Alene, Heres a few pics from that nice April Day:
More recently, Last weekend the GF and I jumped on the bike for a day trip down to Palouse Falls State Park in WA, along the way we saw this little grain siding elevator in Lancaster..one of many like this in Eastern Wa.
Some cool views along the way:
We stopped for snacks...
Since we have had a wet spring I have been anxious to get to these falls, and heres why:
Time to head on back home
and yes i did ante up and buy my annual Washington State Park Discover Pass so i can park and not worry about getting a $100 ticket. MInd you you a year ago it was all free, but i guess the governor has gotta eat too. Hopefully they are spreading the money in an equitable manner. Actually i really enjoy the Parks, and in general they are all well cared for, and that is worth the price of admission, in my opinion.
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Great bustard is one of the world's largest flying birds:
The bird has a stout body, long legs and neck and an upright stance.
They are best known as ground birds, walking with a deliberate gait, but with a wingspan of up to 2.5m in males, they are also strong fliers. However, while capable of powerful sustained flight, they are poor gliders.
Non-breeding males and females have:
Breeding males differ, with long whitish chin whiskers, russet breast and lower neck.
Great bustard is the only species in the genus Otis, but key features shared with other bustards are:
Otis tarda was formally named by Linnaeus in 1758. However, the species was already well known to naturalists, mentioned in books back to Pliny the Elder (23–79AD), who called it avis tarda.
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July 9, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
An unusual circumstance will occur this week when the 469-foot-long Atlanticborg arrives in Duluth, first to unload wind turbine components for projects in Montana and North Dakota and then to load 60 wind turbine blades made in North Dakota for export to Brazil. Continue Reading
June 14, 2012 in EOT Focus
Work on a 32-turbine wind farm in Clay, Becker and Otter Tail counties will start next month. The Lakeswind wind farm will generate up to 49 megawatts of electricity. Most turbines all but two will be in Clay County in the vicinity of Tansem and Parke townships in the Rollag area.
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April 23, 2012 in The Daily Republic
RAPID CITY (AP) A wind turbine near Porcupine is being rebuilt to power a radio station on the Pine Ridge reservation. Continue Reading
December 24, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald
Central Minnesota's first large-scale wind farm is about a year behind schedule as its backers try to find a utility company that will agree to buy its energy. Geronimo Wind Energy has the state and local permits required to build the 95-megawatt wind farm, which is expected to have as many as 60 turbines — each roughly 400 feet high. Continue Reading
October 22, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald
A wind turbine erected on the campus of the VA Health Care System in St. Cloud earlier this year remains in the commissioning phase due to maintenance issues that have repeatedly caused it to shut down. Continue Reading
November 9, 2010 in The Daily Republic
The Mitchell Board of Education gave the greenest of green lights to Mitchell Technical Institute's wind energy program Monday, by unanimously approving a resolution authorizing the sale of $1.68 million in capital outlay certificates to pay for the purchase of a wind turbine.
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This version was performed by Bruce Springsteen
Pony boy, pony boy
Won't you be my pony boy
Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoo
My pony boy
Ride with me ride with me
Won't you take a ride with me
Underneath the starry sky
My pony boy
O'er the hills and through the trees
We'll go ridin' you and me
Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-away
My pony boy
Down into the valley deep
'Neath the eaves we will sleep
Sky of dreams up above
My pony boy
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Pony Boy, Pony Boy,
won't you be my Pony Boy?
Don't say, "No", here we go, off across the plains.
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Giddy up, giddy up, giddy up, whoa!
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Lori, 59 yrs old and soon to be a grandma, United States
10 January 2015 at 2:42pm
This is a lullabye my grandmother sang to all of her grandchildren (33 of them). Now its my turn!
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29 October 2013 at 7:33pm
I know this song as: Pony boy, Pony boy, won't you be my pony boy? Here we go, here we go, off to crystal land. Marry me, carry me, run away with me. Giddy up, giddy up, whoa, my pony boy. or pony girl.
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So happy to finally know all the words to this song! My now 24 year old nephew absolutely loved this lullaby when he was a toddler even though we knew just a few of the words, (had to "la, la, la," through the rest.)
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If you really want to ease the country's dependence on oil—and therefore its vulnerability to oil spills—say most environmental groups, use less oil. That may seem an impossible task, considering that oil is used in everything from chewing gum to carpets to, ironically, the Dawn dish liquid being used to clean the oil off of pelicans and turtles in the Gulf of Mexico. But one change that will have a significant impact on your oil use is to try telecommuting. It will reduce your gasoline use, and it may also gain you a better work-life balance. Plus, it gets you out of road-rage-inducing traffic, which triples your heart attack risk. Assuming your employers are already on board with the idea (if not, here are a few ways to convince them that working from home benefits everybody), you may have other concerns about working from home.
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The life stage of 18-25-year-olds is completely different than it was in previous eras. In just one generation, we see contrasts that used to take two to three generations to surface. This massive shift has created frustration with older generations. Parents recognize this is a completely different world and struggle to relate. Others throw their arms up in bewilderment, assuming theyll never understand. And many church leaders wish theyd just grow up. In this book, Chuck Bomar brings understanding, comfort, and direction to all of this. Youll learn: -how the development of higher education has caused much of the separation between generations -the irreversible ways in which this generation has been impacted and how todays college-aged person differs from the typical thoughts and values of older generations -the five major pursuits of college-aged people and why they pursue these areas Through profiles of college-aged people and testimonies of parents, youll explore in-depth issues college-age people face, how they process through them, and what influences their decisions so you can effectively minister to them.
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"Wow!" a galvanized Igor Stravinsky reportedly exclaimed after listening to Leonard Bernstein's astonishing recording with the New York Philharmonic of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), a performance that was captured more than a half-century ago in a single electrically-charged recording session. Fifty-five years later, this legendary album still sounds as galvanizing\ and revolutionary as Le Sacre du Printemps itself, a work that Bernstein characterized as "only one of your everyday volcanic masterpieces... a miraculous new creation of such originality and power that still today it shocks and overwhelms us." It was exactly a century ago that Le Sacre du Printemps shocked and overwhelmed its first audience, provoking a now legendary riot at its Paris premiere whose notoriety and magnitude was unprecedented in the history of classical music. The opening night audience included, among the ladies, gentlemen and diplomats, such luminaries as Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy. This reissue of Bernstein's 1958 recording of Le Sacre du Printemps is a brand new audio transfer from the original analogue reels and is also available on 180-gram audiophile quality vinyl. It also includes the original cover art of the now-iconic image by Gray Foy that would turn out to be the quintessential visual equivalent to Stravinsky's music. In addition, the package has photos of Bernstein and Stravinsky plus images from the New York Philharmonic recording sessions and an essay by Jonathan Cott, writer and editor for Rolling Stone magazine.
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What was a surprise was a new remastering of Leonard Bernstein's first recording of the Rite, which has been a classic since it appeared in 1958. Known as the "the wild one", it earned a fitting "Wow" from the composer at the end of the recording session. The sound was considered impressive in its day. The Bernstein made the Recommended list. The Bernstein is a must.
Recording information: St. George Hotel, Brooklyn, New York (01/20/1958).
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Works DetailsStravinsky, Igor : Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for piano, 4 hands
- Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
- Ensemble: New York Philharmonic
- Running Time: 32 min. 34 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
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