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...spoke at the University of Michigan in 1991. Whistleblowing and chanting with the intent of drowning out the speaker is not behavior commensurate with the status that is being extended to the Class of 1993. Rather, it is the mark of a band of extremists whose arguments are so devoid of merit that they will not survive in the arena of rational discourse. They must find an avenue of protest that will exhibit both their displeasure with the selection of Powell and their ability to engage in rational, reasoned displays of dissent which do not infringe on the rights...
...roles of Zuniga (Robert Danielowich) and Micaela (Minna Hahn), are not supposed to be devoid of feeling, but an audience unfamiliar with the opera might have left Dunster on Saturday night thinking so. Danielowich's voice was strong but in mangling Bizet's French came off as unimpressive. He did not project downstage, but constantly across, his gestures at times relevant, at times not. He conveyed authority in his part, but little else...
Aside from one great scoring opportunity for Harvard freshman Megan Hall, the third stanza was devoid of sparks...
...Many Americans today mistake as wilderness the ersatz version to which they have become accustomed. Where once there were forests, now there are tree farms, transmogrified by science into monocultural stands of uniform height and genetic stock. In a word, a crop. Many anglers cast into rivers and lakes devoid of native fish. Stocked European brown trout and transplanted rainbows ply our streams, with native brook and cutthroat trout in retreat. Bighorn sheep and other game herds are shunted about for the hunter's delight...
...concrete landscape in a bleak terrain. Behind communism's illusions there always lurked a chilling soullessness. From an unlimited expanse of possibility, the horizon of Russia's future has shrunk to a prefabricated emptiness devoid of assurance that things may one day change for the better...