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That produced a fascinating musical fusion, but it didn't allay the doubts that most of the creators had, straight through rehearsals, about their quest and their sanity. Says set and costume designer Rob Howell: "Every other day one of us was wondering out loud, 'What. Are. We. Doing...
Lethal injection, a subject of controversy in the U.S., was once expected to allay public squeamishness about the DEATH PENALTY...
...After an article about the letter was published in The Crimson, Summers sent a response directly to McDonald, and later to the entire Faculty. In the response, obtained by The Crimson, Summers attempted to allay the chairs’ concern by saying that The Crimson’s sources for the story had engaged in “irresponsible and misguided speculation...
...Chinese looking at images of older aspects of China?the narrow hutongs, children dressed like soldiers?often worry that they make the country appear backward. Delano doesn't try to allay such anxieties. Rather, the gloom and smog of his prints augment the impression that China is benighted, inscrutable, forlorn. If Delano were purely a journalist, we might demand a wider, more balanced view. But he's not. His photographs are the work of an artist and no matter what they choose to tell us, or not tell us, about China, their beauty makes us want to look at them...
...Gordon’s Oct. 17 e-mail sought to allay members’ concerns about the two trips...