Word: antagonists
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Anyone who continues the "cause" of division and intolerance on any side of an issue is as guilty as the antagonist who may have started it and passed it on to us. We have seen where that leads in this country and around the world. Debates and panel discussions are good until they seek to exclude...
Ordinarily, malicious efforts to this effect should be simply dismissed without providing the dignity afforded to principled debate. Refusing to participate in a destructive dialogue of this nature prevents the antagonist from achieving the desired goal of stirring racial animosity. In the absence of constructive dialogue however, the antagonist, by simply being audible, is often able to set the tone of the debate. Thus, while effective in denying him or her the attention he or she craves, ignoring the antagonist often facilitates his or her goal by allowing such claims to monopolize the discourse. As such, in the absence...
Playing the vague figure of Death, Robert Wallace is the most convincing antagonist of the three ballets. Along with dark figures running on stage called The Past (played by students of the Boston Ballet School), Wallace frightens and enchants at the same time. Ribeiro is delightful as the Mechanical Nightingale, with her precise movements. She is a cold, elegant wind-up doll, entertaining the Prince with the same repetitive moves until they are comical...
...journalists get to make the history they write about. When Nelson Mandela was rehearsing for his only debate with President F.W. de Klerk before South Africa's elections last year, he called on Allister Sparks to pose as his Afrikaner antagonist. That selection may seem curious, but South Africa has long been a place where liberal English-speaking journalists like Sparks believed their job was not simply to record the struggle against apartheid but participate in it as well...
TIME's Carney, who attended, says Clinton's "rousing speech" galvanized an otherwise soporific DLC parlay and persuaded many moderate Democrats that the president would reposition himself to their liking. (Clinton antagonist McCurdy, Carney reports, was so enthusiastic that he said blurted out, "That's the Bill Clinton we've been waiting for" -- a remark that drew a momentary frown from the president, who had avoided directly criticizing McCurdy.) "Are they going to play it safe, or be bold in taking on the Republicans?" Carney asks. "The signal Clinton issued was that they're going to be bold and challenge...