Word: abandons
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Podhoretz and West would do well to take a lesson from Minister Farrakhan himself. In a Newsweek interview that appeared this week. Farrakhan said that Jewish groups had faxed him after the march, asking him to abandon his anti-Semitism. "What they're asking for, it seems to me, is to cut the heart out of a messenger's message," the Minister said. Farrakhan, alas, does not bracket...
Beethoven's contemporaries declared that the Seventh Symphony could only have been composed by one who was drunk, perhaps alluding to Beethoven's unusual obsession with the rhythmic qualities of this composition. In that light, Kleiber presents a reading replete with charm and joyful abandon, tempered with sensitivity and intelligence...
...prudent qualification, given that each night he was raising millions of dollars at party fund raisers from well-off contributors.) The line that came to him most naturally was that he and the majority in Congress have been searching for "common ground'' that extremists want to abandon...
...show's penultimate song, "Ruby Tuesday," Faithfull hopped about the stage, strutting and shimmying with abandon. No wonder she fidgeted at times during the first act. It was a prologue of innocence lost that required restraint. The second act was an exercise in reclaiming hedonism...
...neighbor Natalya (Nada Despotovich), whom he wishes to wed. The anxious and particular Lomov succeeds unexpectedly with Natalya's father in asking for her hand, but soon everything goes terribly wrong when Lomov falls into a pointless territorial dispute with Natalya before he can propose. As he refuses to abandon principle for pragmatism, the argument degenerates...