Word: caste
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...winning stage personality -- and with the powerful patronage of Met artistic director James Levine -- she has risen to worldwide fame in secondary roles that ordinarily do not make stars, parts like Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Sophie in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Battle's presence in a cast or with an orchestra practically guarantees a sold-out house; her albums, whether art songs or spirituals, are consistent best sellers...
...eccentricities -- not to mention the outrageous quirks of arrogant male singers, especially tenors. But Battle is, according to many who have worked with her, impossible. Fussy, erratic and arbitrary, the headstrong soprano has infuriated colleagues and administrators and crossed swords with functionaries and hapless hoteliers across the globe. The cast of The Daughter of the Regiment applauded when it was told during rehearsal that Battle had been fired...
Relatively few blacks will be voting for De Klerk's white-dominated National Party, and few of the 3.6 million eligible whites will cast their ballots for the A.N.C. But there is a bloc of about 2 million colored, or mixed-race, voters and 650,000 Indians the A.N.C. wants to win over. That will be where the party does need to convey a sophisticated message, since the colored and Indian communities are not convinced that they will fare better under a black- majority government. "The coloreds have always been marginalized by the A.N.C.," says Lawrence Solomon...
...reluctantly acquiesced on the condition that military action be severely limited. Clinton persuaded Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien to go along despite worries about the safety of 2,000 Canadian peacekeepers. Even Greece, the most pro-Serb of the NATO nations, decided not to vote for the ultimatum, but cast no veto either...
...Sometimes it seemed like they thought they were better than others," she recalls. "And I'd say, like why? We're good people. We're good skaters." A gutsy response, but Nancy hardly understood that some of the snobbery was a cover for envy -- which was to cast a deeper shadow later in life...