Word: de
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...Easy, cheerful and sedate." This final section is certainly sedate, almost verging even on morose, culminating in the final couplet of the work: a grandiose choral motto, "Thy pleasures, Moderation, give/ In them alone we truly live." Moderation is not quite so enchanting a subject as either the joie de vivre of L'Allegro or the melancholic beauty of Il Penseroso. Nor could any claim that Jennens' verse stands quite equal to the Milton it seeks to reprove. Though the music is still lovely, the final reprimand of Il Moderato seems hardly the proper note on which...
...relevance today of Alexis de Tocqueville's thoughts on democracy and American political life 170 years ago was dicussed by a panel last night at the Divinity School...
...those of the monarchs of Spain and Cambodia, can be successful in their own right by the strength of their personalities. For instance, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, who, aside from being extremely popular for her approachable style, is also admired for her artistic talents and for translating Simone de Beauvoir into Danish under a pseudonym...
...past middle age, allowing them to marry later, choose their partners with less reproductive urgency, even undergo body-wide traumas like chemotherapy--all the while knowing that a few eggs, banked years earlier, were preserving their ability to bear children. The very idea of menopause as a procreative cul de sac could be made obsolete. "This," says Dr. Joe Massey, a scientist who helped develop the technique, "stretches the reproductive field as far as you can envision...
...send a copy to us?'" The end result, Sullivan predicts, will be that "you'll find they aren't that different" from state to state. When all 49 of these states are finished developing their standards, the country may end up eating its cake and having it too: de facto national standards created by the individual states...