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Elsewhere the touch is surer. Blessed with an extraordinarily vivid Mime in Dutch Tenor Hubert Delamboye, Rochaix gives the conniving dwarf free rein, particularly in Siegfried, where his exchanges with the sturdy Siegfried (American Heldentenor Edward Sooter) have a sharp, often humorous bite. And having Siegfried relate his wooing of Brunnhilde directly to Gunther near the end of Gotterdammerung gives the innocent Siegfried's ensuing murder a special poignancy...
Some graduate schools used a different, more formal method of decision. Since the Corporation decided the celebration would be a University-wide affair, the graduate schools were given free rein to select their alloted representatives on whatever criteria they deemed fit, Koivumaki says...
...difficult to see why the Sandinistas are so anxious to keep a tight rein on Obando. At a May Day Mass last week, the Cardinal used his homily to defend the right to strike, which was among the guarantees suspended in October. He warned sternly that "Marxism does not have the solution for the working class." In the past Obando has attacked Nicaragua's unpopular universal military draft and urged young men to enter seminaries as a way of avoiding it. He has urged the government to negotiate with the contra rebels and declined to condemn the Reagan Administration...
That omission was remedied last week by Dutch Ambassador Jonkheer Rein Huydecoper, who will present the islanders with a scroll officially declaring an end to hostilities. Said he: "It must have been awful to know we could have attacked at any moment...
WASHINGTON--The Reagan administration praised European allies yesterday for taking steps to rein in Libyan diplomatic personnel while revealing it has decided against expelling Libyans from the United States...