Word: calming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...view this with a degree of calm, if not with complacency. It seems unnatural or disappointing only to those whose expectations have been formed by vanguardism. Over the sourness generated by the much advertised "culture wars" of the early '90s hang the famous lines from Yeats: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity." But one should also recall the equally durable words of that all-American girl Scarlett O'Hara: After all, tomorrow is another...
...next song, a slight ballad by Friedrich Rueckert (the same one who made Mahler's masterpiece possible), was the evening's first jewel. As an astute listener remarked, "Dass sie hier gewesen" (That she was here) was ravishing because Goode wove in Upshaw's calm melody among a gently insistent stream of suspended fourths. The last of the five, "Der Musensohn" (The Muses' Son, a poem by Goethe), was a vehicle more for Goode's talent than Upshaw's--his capricious part intimated one of his upcoming Brahms solos. Unfortunately, the lace of technical difficulty left him free...
...Scottish and Welsh assemblies and kicking the hereditary peers out of the House of Lords. It is the biggest Tory defeat in 165 years: half the government have lost their seats, the party is virtually leaderless, the succession is wide open, and the only Tory politician who is looking calm, secure and confident is Margaret Thatcher, who campaigned loyally for John Major but privately forecast his catastrophic defeat. She will again be the Tory queen, and the kingmaker in the succession struggle...
DENVER: Although attorneys from sides in the Oklahoma City bombing trial tried to use Jennifer McVeigh's testimony to their advantage, TIME's Patrick Cole reports that her appearance chiefly benefited the prosecution. A calm, collected Ms. McVeigh told jurors Tuesday that she received a letter from her brother Tim a few weeks before the explosion promising "something big is going to happen in the month of the bull," an apparent astrological reference to April. Never asking what that something was, she followed her brother's instructions and burned the letter. The 23-year-old college student also recalled...
...looking for assurances from French officials that should Mobutu come to France, as one of his aides has already suggested, he can retire there unmolested. Although Kabila has indicated he would give Mobutu time to leave the capital, continued sporadic fighting continues to worry U.S. officials. Although Kinshasa remains calm, State Department spokesman John Dinger urged Americans in the city to leave immediately...