Word: plea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hero is apparently in tended both as humorous metaphor and, in Menotti's words, as "a gentle, good-natured plea for Americans to wake up to reality, to abandon self-congratulatory illusions, to return to their former rugged individualism." The opera invites easy comparisons. There is a tape-erasing scene (David's awakening has been recorded); though the Nixon tapes are not mentioned, the point is obvious. Operatic comparisons are also in order. The Hero is a reverse twist on Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, that maudlin, heavy-handed tale about the impersonation of a dead...
...look on in detached amusement (one student even explained to me that she would work as a volunteer scab in case of a dining hall workers' stroke because, "I'm a liberal economist, I don't believe in strikes."); when I see a Medical School professor make a veiled plea for a return to the quite recent days when the number of black doctors graduating from the nation's medical schools every year could be counted on the fingers of one hand; when I see that another Harvard professor who has publicly referred to the present tensions between the Third...
...responsibility," says a company spokesman. "We point out that they will be helping to ensure the company's future if they take a few hundred marks less." The company has not denied rumors that it might tighten up the rules of the employee-purchase fringe benefit if its plea is not heeded...
Harvard's Black Law Students Association (BALSA) has also sent a letter to Levi, making a similar plea for the federal government not to intervene...
Sprague sees this as Kafkaesque justice. More important, he looks upon it as a chance to fight against his pet outrage: slipshod standards in the criminal justice system. "I want to attack the plea bargaining in this case," he says angrily. "I want to make a mockery of what the state of New Jersey has done...