Word: heard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unless postponement is tactically useful. Since the U.S. began discussions with the P.L.O. last December, Israel has heard little from the Administration's highest reaches. The result has been frantic maneuvering in Jerusalem, movement that may make the next step toward negotiations easier. Rather than react to an American agenda, Yitzhak Shamir's government is being forced to craft its own. "Sometimes," says Baker, "a pro-active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time...
...director Peter Sellars has eccentrically decided to combine this with the same singers performing eight Bach choral works. But the piece de resistance, which just finished two weeks of performances in Paris and is due in Brooklyn in May, is a 313-year-old opera that almost nobody had heard of for the past couple of centuries. It is Atys by Jean-Baptiste Lully, court composer to King Louis XIV, and it is a marvel...
...thinks, because they don't want to be reminded that their own deaths are looming closer. Jeff's natural customers seem to be yuppie types who not only prefer to deny death, but would also like to deny all that is unpleasant in life. Most of those people have heard about Jeff's service through stories done on him in newspapers from as far away as Britain, and on television and radio shows...
...money question also reflects on the fears of minorities that they aren't being heard. McKinnis says, "Parents have been waiting for quality education. That is the number one issue for parents." So if the School Committee fails to include additional funding, the accusation can again be leveled that the group did not listen to the "plaintiffs...
...Throughout the United States I've heard persons say you can't desegregate the cities because they are 80 percent Black or 80 percent brown," he says. "Well, that means they are 20 percent white...