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...Nahal Hemar discovery should banish forever any popular notions that Neolithic man was brutish and dull. "He fashioned jewelry and elaborate textiles and traded to the north and south," declares Tamar Noy, a curator of prehistory at the museum. "These objects are so exquisite that they give us a new view of what our ancestors were like...
...greater public awareness these injustices can be stopped. Publicity will give minorities the courage to come forward and complain. If the community is made aware of the gravity of the situation, much can be done to incite the police to be sensitive to the concerns of minorities, and to banish their discriminatory ways...
...charges or whether they were a sort of mental residue that had not yet been erased from the minds of these abused children. The story never resolves this point, only concluding with the pessimistic realization that the good can never completely vanquish the bad. Although the governess manages to banish the ghosts from the house, their taint has already in part destroyed the children. In The Turn of the Screw nothing mitigates the relentless course of evil...
...answer depends heavily on what is meant by "work." If the meaning is Reagan's original vision of a defense that would banish the terror of nuclear war forever, by making the U.S. invulnerable to assault, then Star Wars almost certainly cannot work. Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger characterizes the headier versions of a Star Wars plan as "half Buck Rogers, half P.T. Barnum," and even the most ardent proponents generally con- cede that no technology now known or foreseeable could be guaranteed to destroy every warhead the Soviets could launch. Some percentage would always get through, causing death...
...course, the ART's version ofEndgame will not single-handedly banish the original to rare manuscript archives. Yet Brustein is wrong to say, as he has, that the original of a play exists only in the manuscript. It also exists in the general kind of staging which made the play a classic: sometimes it is preserved on celluloid, other times it becomes a Platonic form of a performance of that play. With Endgame, it is a timeless, barren interior of grey lighting. That aspect of the play could be 'lost' if it became popularly believed that Beckett's Endgame should...