Word: mentions
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Festivals, while usually messy and exhausting, galvanize a troupe's creative forces and enhance its public image (not to mention its fund raising) by presenting several new works or perhaps some rarities. N.Y.C.B. excels in this wily art. In the past two decades, the late Balanchine conjured up two substantial homages to Stravinsky (1972, 1982) and one each to Ravel (1975) and Tchaikovsky...
...imagine that, from time to time, you've thought my book unfair, ugly, and hateful," writes Elia Kazan, 78, toward the end of this bustling, bruising autobiography. "Here and there it is vulgar too." Well, er, yes, now that you mention...
...suits by black parents against two all-white private schools. That decision required the Justices to look into the language of laws enacted in the wake of the Civil War, when Congress was seeking to guarantee the rights of newly emancipated blacks. Though the 19th century statutes make no mention of schools, one of them does guarantee all persons the same right "to make and enforce contracts." In the 1976 case, the Justices concluded 7 to 2 that Congress intended the law to forbid segregation at nonsectarian private schools. A whites-only policy, they reasoned, denied black parents the opportunity...
...council voted not to endorse a complaint filed by a Mather senior against one of the clubs. Later, a resolution was passed which gave Lisa J. Schkolnick $250 to help pursue her discrimination complaint against the Fly Club. The proposal slated to be considered this week does not mention Schkolnick's complaint...
...army's lab would be bad publicity for the service. Roth decided, however, that the information should be made public, and told his lab chief that he still wanted to publish the findings. The chief told him that if he did so, he should leave out any mention of the army. Thus, the study was published with the author's home address, not that of the lab where they conducted the research, as is customary in scientific papers...