Word: rift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given this sorry state of affairs, the fact that a group like the Rhode Island Feminist Theatre even exists is cause for celebration. Unfortunately, RIFT's fourth and newest production, Persephone's Return, is not. Instead it is a well-intentioned failure that points out many of the problems likely to arise in any attempt to combine art and ideology...
...RIFT has chosen the Persephone myth as a symbol of the change from the matriarchy to the patriarchy that occurred in western prehistory. The natural bond between mother and daughter--between female and female--is forcibly broken. Woman, who possesses the womb and is therefore the source of life, is subjugated to man, whose power and symbol is death...
Anxious to heal the rift with Congress, Ford and Kissinger briefed nine senior Congressmen at breakfast the next day on Chile and covert affairs in general. Later, at a previously scheduled hearing on d�tente, Kissinger reiterated before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the intent of the CIA operation in Chile was merely to keep the Allende opposition alive and "not to destabilize or subvert" his government. Kissinger also conducted two separate briefings at the Senate. Still, Congress was neither convinced nor mollified. As the week progressed, growing numbers of Representatives and Senators called for an all-out review...
That is a generous assessment of what the pardon might accomplish. Yet the very existence of a lost man?and Richard Nixon, whatever his remaining perquisites or power, is a lost man ?impels a compassionate society to hope that the rift between it and him can somehow be healed. Such a hope stems not from mere pity, but from self-recognition. Each of us is to a degree lost, tied to the rest of humanity?and to God?by fragile strands of grace, strands that fray and break. Pardon is a favor that we may sometimes...
During this process, the scientists found, mineral deposits such as iron, manganese and copper accumulate in the rift valley as lava-heated water circulates through cracks in the sea-floor rocks. But the depths at which these minerals are located would probably make them too costly to mine, at least for the moment...