Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formally denounced the participation of rabbis in mixed-marriage ceremonies, rabbis in the most liberal of Judaism's major branches generally do as they please. Reform Rabbi Irwin Fishbein of Westfield, N.J., last year printed a national directory of 200 members of the Reform clergy who are willing to conduct intermarriages. Moment, a feisty Jewish monthly, caused a stir earlier this year when it estimated that half of Reform rabbis perform such ceremonies...
Nonetheless, Phinney says, although it may seem as if students who conduct summer thesis research have an unfair advantage, "it doesn't make a crucial difference" because "the people who will get summas will get them anyway...
...Finn is not the only person to use University money to do thesis research. Several Harvard-Radcliffe departments as well as the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) and Radcliffe College annually sponsor a variety of grants and fellowships for prospective seniors to conduct research on their theses...
...onstage once more and transform despair into dominance. His pity is for someone like Garbo, who has allowed herself to be victimized by her beauty's decay and so exiled from the consolation of creation. Describing a rehearsal of Der Rosenkavalier he once heard Herbert von Karajan conduct, Bergman writes, "We were drowned in a wave of devastating, repellent beauty." That is how one feels emerging from this book, which is surely one of the finest self-portraits of an artist written in our time...
...most dramatic testimony in Hammadi's trial last week came from John Testrake, 60, the American pilot who won praise for his steady conduct throughout the 17-day ordeal of Flight 847. Hammadi admitted in early August that he was one of the plane's two armed hijackers. Testrake not only confirmed this but also presented the most direct evidence so far that Hammadi committed the onboard murder of U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem, whose body was dumped onto the Beirut airport tarmac...