Word: commendations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christ. Despite Judas, both libretto and music are provocatively ambiguous about Christ's divinity. At The Crucifixion, the slow, chromatic climb of the orchestra is a compelling suggestion that Christ's spirit is ascending. The opera's last line is "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit...
...great deal of talent. Ganin's sweet memories of pre-Revolution Russia and of his love encounters there with Mary are very promising. The sense of intimacy and sadness is worthy of Chekhov. Your descriptions of the countryside would have been the envy of Turgenev. May I commend you especially on the book's inventiveness and control. Having the depressed Ganin find new vitality through his memories while awaiting Mary's arrival from the Soviet Union creates a natural suspense of great force. Making Mary the wife of a bland squirt who also lives at the boardinghouse...
...while it is finished. and they are ready to toss the ashes and sprinkle the dust, and to commend his soul to God for the final time. And because he is a veteran, they have buried Anthony with the full privileges his heroism commands. Anthony Blake, dead at 20, is lowered into the grave, clothed in the flag...
...Cambridge Chamber of Commerce wishes to commend the student body of Harvard University for its peaceful involvement during the rally on Wednesday, April 15, and for its efforts to maintain an effective demonstration of ideas and an open platform for discussion...
While realizing that our voices do not add very much to yours in spite of your commendably powerful and moderate presentations, we wish to join you in our own small way. We do own a GM car with both its engineering strengths and stupidities, have some investments held in trust as well as directly owned and have 9 children-4 of whom have been exposed to college and the others aspire to be in the future. We commend your ideas to them. We also are sending copies of this letter to President Pusey, the companies involved...