Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard does not reveal or comment on the names of the honorands until Bok awards the degrees at the close of the morning exercises. The Crimson reported the names of the 10 recipients in yesterday's issue...
When pressed to reveal the secret to his success, Fleming admits it is his "tightly organized" lectures and enthusiasm while teaching that draw the crowds. Nonetheless, he refuses to take all the credit and modestly suggests that it is the subject matter--intellectual history--that brings the hordes of students...
There was some comfort for the Reagan Administration in El Salvador, where the government last week revealed documents that, if authentic, back Washington's charges of strong leftist Salvadoran guerrilla ties to the Soviet bloc and Nicaragua. The papers indicate that several guerrillas have attended military-training courses in the Soviet Union, Viet Nam, East Germany and Bulgaria. The letters, diaries and other documents also suggest that relations between the Salvadoran rebels and the Sandinistas have been strained at times, particularly in the months following the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada. The papers, said one U.S. official, "tend to confirm...
Akhnaten is the third of Glass's trilogy of operas about remarkable men. A musically luminous treatment of the rise and fall of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh some consider history's first monotheist, it unfolds in gradual waves to reveal two particularly striking moments: a ravishing trio for Akhnaten (a countertenor), his mother and his wife in the first act; and Akhnaten's glorious hymn to the sun disk in Act II. The prevailing mood, though, is dark and brooding, emphasized by Glass's use of an orchestra without violins. Rich in detail and sharp in characterization, Akhnaten...
Other nicknames reveal character--of a sort...