Word: obeying
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Survival can bring a kind of smugness, a moral certainty that there is an absolute code to obey and a single straight path to follow. Hynde's songs never carry a hint of this. She may have forced a land of necessary rapprochement with her recklessness, but the fire still burns bright-perhaps against the night. She speaks intensely of Natalie, and of "a real feeling of humanity that I hadn't had before." But she also thinks often of a past that dwells persistently, inescapably in the present. "I think about death every day. Always...
...Church, thereby revealing greed. To demonstrate his contempt for this false system of values, Cenci embarks on a spree of killing and feasting, all leading up to his "defilement" of his daughter Beatrice (Susan Kelly). "For me," he says, "life, death, god, incest, repentance, crime do not exist. I obey my own law." Finally, Cenci's angry wife and angrier daughter have him killed. All the preceeding facts are the parts of the play that are conclusively true. Everything else that the audience sees--embarrassingly florid and melodramatic orations, weird communions with the gods of darkness, shrieks, screams and flashing...
...protested the move on the grounds that to obey it the company would be forced to violate laws governing treatment of federal government property...
Last week's flare-up occurred during hearings by the House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations. Although the subject was an Administration request for $259 million in additional military aid to El Salvador over the next 18 months, Wisconsin Democrat David Obey could not resist lecturing Shultz about Lebanon. Obey charged that State Department briefings for Congressmen on Lebanon had been "the least informative, the least substantive and the most pitiful I've ever witnessed." Now, Obey went on, "we appear to be in a position where we are going to run into another foreign policy failure...
...police cruised outside, the crowd dispersed peacefully. The following day, however, the principal of a nearby school reportedly tried to resign rather than enforce the crucifix ban. Dominski met with parents at the Mietno school and tried to have them sign pledges that their children would obey school rules; the parents refused. Though local church officials were firmly on their side, Jozef Cardinal Glemp, Poland's Primate, offered only tepid comfort. Stopping over in Rome after a three-week trip to Argentina and Brazil last week, Glemp said, "Since the end of the war, we have always had problems...