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...jumps from ending note to grace-note. A high moment in his performance came in the "He was despised" aria. Startlingly unadorned, this aria provided a striking contrast to the equally lovely lines that followed, "He gave his back to despisers." The soprano recitatives of Pifa, the second, post-natal half of Part I give Labelle a real chance to shine. She displays a very clear, resonant voice, only occasionally marred by a slight crack or falter. She warbles trills such as those in the "Rejoice greatly" aria as one imagines the very angels would...
...Post-Natal Attention As their physical condition improves, the septuplets face a new peril: media attention. A cautionary tale of fame and fertility...
Marshall grew up in a small town called Newcastle in Natal, South Africa. She attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, graduating in 1966. She became the president of the National Union of South African Students, and a fervent advocate of majority rule. However, she insisted that at that time she had no idea that she would become a lawyer, much less a judge...
...latter is what goes on typically among American cultural or ethnic groups-among the Irish on St. Patrick's Day and related events, among Chinese Americans in Chinese New Year, etc. Even non-natal ethnic persons can participate in these pragmatic solidarity, as I have done in Irish and Italian solidarity events, for they are civic solidarity in character, not sacred solidarity...
...other words, pragmatic solidarity patterns do not compel their non-natal members to retreat from the broader culture-the manufactured culture-of the American national society. Rather, pragmatic solidarity patterns permit and encourage natal-ethnic members to be both American-and-Irish, American-and-Jewish...