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...like the love she sings of earlier, Carmen is a "rebellious bird/That you can never hope to tame" and before long the lovers quarrel. Suddenly, Escamillio, the matador, appears. Escamillio also has fallen madly in love with the enchantress since meeting her before her flight from Seville. He challenges Don Jose to yield Carmen but Don Jose, determined to hold onto the last strands of his dignity, refuses. Only when faced with the news that his mother is dying back home does Don Jose leave the smugglers. But all the while he vows to come back and reclaim Carmen...
...actually constituted an apology. But the display of Japanese contrition, later reinforced by an eloquent apology by Japanese Prune Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, clearly satisfied Chun. The South Korean President cited an old Korean proverb: "The ground hardens after a rainfall," meaning that close friends become even closer after a quarrel...
Part of Jackson's quarrel with the Jewish community involves a sensitive political question. Along with some other Black leaders, he genuinely believes that Jews command an influence within the party disproportionate to their recent vote-delivering capacity, whereas Blacks are the "most loyal" Democrats. Jackson-aides point out that while more than 80% of Black presidential votes in 1980 were cast for the Democratic candidate, more than half of Jewish ballots went against him. Says the Rev. Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, of the Jewish protest over Jackson: "It sounds like they are looking...
...section of jazz reviews that ends the book enables Larkin to thresh out his quarrel fully with modernism. He writes warmly about his youthful passion for the likes of Armstrong, Beiderbecke and Ellington, but charges that Bebop Saxophonist Charlie Parker destroyed it all with music that gave "the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously." Parker thus joins Pound and Picasso in Larkin's unholy trinity of decadent experimenters, and jazz's evolution becomes a capsule version of the "degeneration into private and subsidized absurdity" that he believes is overtaking all the arts. What...
There is more truth to the American side of this quarrel than to the Soviet one. Soviet protestations of pique or even fury cannot be taken at face value any more than expressions of good will and friendship. The bear is a born actor: he growls to frighten his foes so that they will back off, and plays tame so that they will draw nearer to be hugged (sometimes to the point of suffocation) or bitten...