Word: neil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appeared that Reagan had succeeded in keeping the conservative rebellion from spreading and had begun to turn the tide of opposition. His all-out fight had "slowed the erosion" of support for the bill, New York Republican Congressman Barber Conable told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeill. "The rebellion isn't feeding on itself now. His strong intrusion has made people cautious...
Rochberg has done his best to flesh out the unpromising material. The opera, his first, is filled with striking set pieces: a lyrical duet for China (Tenor Neil Rosenshein) and his wife Annabella (Soprano Sunny Joy Langton); an ominous interview between China and his moneyed friend Orchis (Tenor Michael Fiacco), whose threatening nature is underlined by a snap-pizzicato line in the low strings; a good-natured, bibulous ensemble lauding the joys of wine. In his handling of the choruses, Rochberg is especially skillful; indeed the final chorus, extolling the virtue of confidence, recalls the Falstaffian spirit of Verdi...
Reported by Neil MacNeil/Washington
...Rabbi Neil Gillman, a philosophy professor at Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City, says flatly, "Kushner misunderstands Job. He is willing to do away with God's omnipotence, and this is a radical break with the Jewish past. All the traditional answers say that God is in some way responsible for suffering; Kushner says, 'Maybe he's not.' His position is very problematic as a solution to the problem of evil, and a lot of my students find it very difficult to take. I personally would have trouble gaining comfort and consolation from...
Reported by Neil MacNeil and Evan Thomas/Washington