Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recounts, harassed and shut down by white authorities who resented its ambition, feared its competition with white theaters (as when the Africans' Richard III was to play opposite Booth's version of the same play) and recoiled from the notion that European classics were within the intellectual grasp of former slaves...
...those who care passionately about public life and service, making a difference means that we must acknowledge our differences first. Asian-Americans are beginning to realize that the harder we try to ignore our problems as a community and strive to "assimilate," the more these goals will escape our grasp...
Most economists agree that the best answer lies in some carefully crafted combination of spending cuts (especially in entitlements like Medicare and farm supports) and tax increases. Early signs from President-elect Clinton's transition headquarters suggest that he is beginning to grasp that reality. If he can build enough public support to push a serious package of economic and budgetary reform through Congress, he will have earned the gratitude of his fellow Americans for years to come. He will also have taken a great load off the mind of Harry E. Figgie Jr., prophet of the apocalypse...
...albums capture the qualities that make her recitals sellout events. Bartoli grabs the audience. She sings with her eyes too. In Rossini, who has lavish comic zest, she courts the phrases and the audience as well. She displays, as Levine says, "an exceptional instrument, personality, grasp of the music and the text and, most of all, the ability to communicate all this...
Harvard seniors know it is their turn to grasp the pigskin and run with it. They have never beaten Yale. This is their last chance...