Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IGOR STRAVINSKY was known for building his music according to strange laws. Dancers move silently on stage while in the pit soloists deliver their lines: one speaking character amid a troupe of dancing nymphs; sliding harmonies that arrest the ear, and which created an almost hysterical outrage back when the...
Successive Communist leaders have tried to win over the workers of Katowice with material benefits, but the city's residents have remained firmly loyal to the church and, more recently, to Solidarity. Thus it was no surprise that John Paul waited until he had gone to Poland's...
Some nonprofit hospitals are starting to adopt methods pioneered by private enterprise ones. One example is satellite treatment centers. These are small, independent facilities where the staff can perform minor surgery, deliver babies, treat alcoholism and offer other care that does not require the full resources of a hospital. As...
The committee, which gives aid to some 300 families in the Warsaw area alone, was created only a few days after the imposition of martial law. St. Martin's has a longstanding tradition of involvement with political opposition; thus the Franciscan convent was a natural gathering place in the...
Painfully, haltingly, the stooped figure moved across the dais of the vast, neoclassical chamber in the Great Kremlin Palace. As the 1,500 delegates of the Supreme Soviet rose to their feet to deliver a tumult of applause, Yuri Andropov's strained face stared ahead without a smile. Hurriedly...