Word: counterpoints
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Larry Fuller's choreography neatly underscores Eva's isolated eminence. A group of calcified aristocrats in full evening dress shuffles across the stage spewing venom at the people's "saint." In counterpoint, an army platoon in full re galia does an absurdist parody of close-order drill while scurrilously sneering at "Perón's latest flame...
...invitation extended to Pope John Paul II to speak on the Dudleian Foundation would have, if accepted, provided a remarkable bit of counterpoint to Mr. Justice Dudley's theme. It would not, however, have been the first time that a Roman Prelate spoke upon that foundation. That distinction belongs to Bishop John J. Keane, Rector of the then-newly established Catholic University, who came at the invitation of Harvard President Charles William Eliot on October 23, 1890 to deliver the Dudleian Lecture on Revealed Religion in Appleton Chapel. His Catholic colleagues likened his precedent-shattering appearance in Harvard Yard...
...Point-counterpoint is the rhythm of the center. If there is a single individual who controls the improvisation, it would have to be William J. Bennett, 35, the executive director. Without intruding, he seems to be everywhere, the intellectual's perfect maitre...
...From Casablanca and Algiers to Tehran and Karachi, Islam is reasserting itself as a counterpoint to Western influence," began a lengthy query cabled earlier this year from TIME'S editorial offices in New York to 16 bureaus throughout the world. "We want to examine Islam's resurgence, not simply as another faith but as a political force and potent third ideology competing with Marxism and Western culture in the world today...
Goodall's conducting is in the expansive, slow-paced tradition of men like Hans Knappertsbusch. He has a touch for bringing out the counterpoint in Wagner's score, particularly in the popular orchestral segments like "Siegfried's Rhine Journey"; but often it's hard to tell just what he's doing with his orchestra, because the recording is so muddy...