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...debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera. It will be an event both long awaited and long overdue. Sills will be 45 when she steps onto the Met stage in Rossini's The Siege of Corinth, and the question is whether, at an age when many divas fade, she will still possess the fabulous voice and technique. The uncertainty exists because she does have occasional off nights, and may be performing too much for her own good. But she is a crowned pro who never cuts down, even at rehearsals, and virtually never cancels...
...that sweet sickening smell--like burning beans--peculiar to dirty houses with wood stoves. The plaster is cracking off the walls, revealing in places an old wallpaper from finer days, repeating and repeating a magnolia bordered portrait of your standard columned mansion house, through which irony we may fade...
Despite the growth of state-owned companies, the major oil companies will not just fade away. Beyond their massive transportation and retailing facilities, they have the technology and management skills that most producing nations will have to continue to hire, however reluctantly. Instead of acting as entrepreneurs, however, the companies will serve more and more as contractors-pumping, refining and moving oil for governments that own it. The role will be profitable, but it will be some distance from the rewarding position in center stage...
...Smith is not likely to fade away after his term expires, despite his objections to former A.B.A. presidents who assert themselves. His drive is too great to tolerate passivity and he is too committed to the A.B.A.'s public service responsibilities. As he recently told an audience of law students: "We are not a trade association. We are not a union. We are out to improve justice and the administration of society. If you don't intend to work to improve the quality of justice, then I hope that you flunk your exams...
...Fade out of sight and mind as quickly as possible," says a gentleman to a work house fugitive in that early book. The welfare state does not talk that honestly to Mrs. Kavanagh and Mrs. Biddulph, but the message remains pretty much the same...