Word: redeemability
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...review attributes "a near-perfect technical mastery" to Seth Carlin's playing. I, for one, could not judge his fingerwork, because of the overall blur his heavy footwork gave the music. And no clear overall understanding of the piece came through to redeem the technical haze...
...papered the world with its dollars, creating plenty of calls on the nation's gold stock. Since 1957, U.S. gold reserves have declined by almost half, to less than $12 billion, and foreign claims on U.S. gold have doubled, to $31.2 billion. If foreigners decided to redeem most of their dollars for gold, the U.S. could not meet its short-term obligations and would have to take drastic measures...
Ever since it tossed out the man who styled himself its "redeemer," Ghana has been trying to redeem itself from his mistakes. Far from wanting to forget Kwame Nkrumah, the National Liberation Council that overthrew him in 1966 has endlessly reminded the 8,000,000 Ghanaians about his aberrant schemes. It even holds lectures on "What Went Wrong in Ghana?", at which the audience invariably utters cries of disbelief. The ruling junta of police and army officers, headed by Lieut. General Joseph Ankrah, has done a great deal more than lecture, however. It has not only rescued Ghana from...
...chronicle, it is no more so than one written with blood and steel on another island at almost the same time. Historians have scanted the Normans' other conquest, and the world has all but forgotten it. This book by a British nobleman, the second Viscount Norwich,* should handsomely redeem both oversights...
...reader, though he may never decide whether or not Diddy left his seat, knows right off what his problem is: alienation. "Diddy merely inhabits his life," the author says. "One can redeem skeletons and abandoned cities as human. But not a lost, dehumanized nature." God knows Diddy tries. He falls in love with the blind girl, marries her in an attempt to help them both...