Word: despoting
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...Puccini's Chinese ice princess that could serve as an object lesson in how the role should be sung. Bringing the full weight of her massive voice to bear on the torturous part, Marton demolished its fearsome technical difficulties while touchingly developing the heroine from a frigid despot into a tender, vulnerable woman. This week at the Met she takes on another of opera's superwomen, Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelia...
...streaming down his face at an outdoor rally in Birmingham, he recited an expanded version of the Pledge of Allegiance: " 'One nation, under God.' It doesn't say North or South or East or West... 'Under God.' It doesn't say under a despot or a monarch or a Politburo." Reporters noted that the wording was taken almost verbatim from an old speech by, of all people, Mondale's mentor, Hubert Humphrey, but the crowd was thrilled. Face flushed with ex- citement, Hollis Hill, a Birmingham chemist, exclaimed: "He appeals to everything...
...illustrated in 1974 by the dethronement of the King of Kings, Elect of God, Lion of Judah, His Most Puissant Majesty and Distinguished Highness the Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie. Few 20th century rulers have reigned with more imperial assurance and panache. A charmer, a demagogue and a despot with an implacable will to power, Haile Selassie had contrived for 44 years to present himself to the world as an enlightened monarch and a forward-looking statesman while his subjects remained in boundless poverty and ignorance...
...task of succeeding Balanchine, a choreographer of genius and a sublime example of the benevolent despot, is awesome. Why Martins? To Kirstein the matter was clear and simple, like everything else about Martins. "It's awfully hard to ignore the fact that he looks the way he does," says Kirstein. "He is like a Cartier object. There is a moral correspondence between psychology and physique. He is a heroic dancer, with a heroic stance. And his behavior is rather heroic...
...Yuri Andropov?unreconstructed Stalinist despot or pro-Western reformer? Little is known about him, and even less can be surmised from the bare facts of his career. Says Historian James Billington, director of Washington's Woodrow Wilson International Center: "The successor had to rise through the system, and the garb he put on for the ascent is not necessarily the garb he will wear when he is in power...