Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These poems portray a battle between nature and the city; Harris clearly favors nature, which sometimes wins, sometimes loses. As a poet, she too is struggling for a balance between her voice and what she sees. When she "wins" and achieves the balance, she breaks through her own habitual language structures with new syntax combinations, through the limitations of whatever form she is using with a fresh attitude, and through the conventions of poetry with a unique style. Manhattan As A Second Language chronicles her fight against the weighty ceiling of writing in a world where so much has already...
...White House for a meeting at which Armco Chairman C. William Verity Jr., head of Reagan's Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives, set a goal of persuading corporations and individuals to increase greatly their charitable contributions during the next four years. That was another attempt to portray Reagan as a man of compassion, but one who believes the poor should be helped as much as possible by voluntary charity rather than Government benefits. At week's end the President hosted a White House lunch for 75 black clergymen, and again plugged voluntarism and assailed the idea that...
Nonetheless, growing troubles abroad, the persistence of the recession and the impasse over the budget have bred tension and frustration at the White House. The mood appears to be shared by the President. He is distressed by efforts to portray him as Scrooge and believes the press is taking an unduly negative tone in reporting on his Administration. Though Reagan is usually careful to conceal these feelings, now and then they flash out damagingly, as in his "South Succotash" wisecrack two weeks ago, for which he had the grace to apologize later...
With public opinion polls showing mounting concern over nuclear weapons, White House aides are anxious to portray President Reagan as deeply committed to arms negotiations. They say he was pleased with the first round of Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks with the Soviets on how to limit tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. Agrees a State Department veteran: "The Reagan people have discovered arms control and like...
...Haydn's younger contemporary Mozart who determined the character of modern opera, and in so doing rendered the works of Haydn and most other 18th century composers out of date. Mozart's ability to portray real emotions on the stage instead of stylized attitudes, and his inventive use of the orchestra as an active participant instead of merely an accompanist, powerfully influenced later generations of composers. In the works he created with Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte-The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così Fan Tutte-Mozart's genius transcended the conventional boundaries of master-servant...