Word: facet
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TODAY would have marked the 50th birthday of one of this country's greatest humanitarians, the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King served this country in a way that is evident in every facet of American life from restaurants to stores, to schools and even the United States' ambassadorial seat in the United Nations. He was a man who dearly loved his country and cared for its people. It is a sad and disgraceful thought that this country refuses officially to remember...
...overriding ambition was to rid China of all traces of its decadent past, while at the same time transforming the Chinese national character. His instrument was a vast totalitarian party and police apparatus that reaches into every facet of daily life, that controls what a Chinese can read, where he can travel, how he should live. Despite the omnipresence of this Orwellian machinery, many practices of the feudal past are observed. In the privacy of their homes, there are many peasant families who still pray to Kuan-yin, the goddess of mercy, and burn incense to their ancestors. Ouija boards...
...major speech this fall Neto declared, "We are not going to be so radical ... We are not going to attempt, as some comrades do, to get rid of the private sector ... The private enterprise of farmers, small businessmen, masons and carpenters is an important facet of production which we need in the country...
Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas (Pianist Alfred Brendel, Philips; 13 LPs). The 32 sonatas, which explore every facet of the keyboard, are an Olympian effort for a performer. Brendel, a meticulous scholar and flawless technician, concentrates on incisive detail rather than drama. If such sonatas as the Appassionata lack grandeur, one can still admire the impeccable musical lines...
...fascinated a world that for the most part believed that no woman in her seventies could effectively run the government of a major nation. But through her long and distinguished career, Meir proved the world wrong. When she died last week at the age of 80, still another courageous facet of her personality came to light: she had been receiving secret radiation therapy for lymphoma for the last 13 years...