Word: sacrosanctity
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Roberts has recorded formidable material before--on his 1991 CD, Three Giants, he covered works by Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. But on Portraits in Blue he takes on his biggest musical challenge by remaking material that is even more familiar and sacrosanct to many listeners. Says Roberts: "Rhapsody in Blue is a piece everyone knows, so the changes you hear, if done right, can give you some idea of the power of jazz music. I wanted to try and bring the piece up to date without sacrificing its basic nature and personality." Because Rhapsody in Blue...
...Some things have to be sacrosanct," Byron said. "I can't believe they don't realize this. What kind of skewed value systems do they have...
Although the U.N. enshrined a roster of universal human rights in 1948, its rule of sovereign noninterference is upheld as sacrosanct by regimes whose behavior at home would not bear close scrutiny. Says Sir Anthony Parsons, British ambassador to the U.N. from 1979 to 1982: "The U.N. has been a disastrous failure there. It set the standards and adopted conventions on everything you can think of--torture, women, children, civil rights--but does nothing to enforce them...
...population. Students working to maintain federal financial aid programs might qualify; those interested in, say, pro-choice advocacy, however urgent that issue may be, would have to look elsewhere. Every other aspect of the grants process would remain blind to organizations' political commitments. We hold this principle to be sacrosanct...
...Medicare is too big a part of the federal budget to ignore. It is more than 10% of all federal spending, ranking behind only defense, Social Security and interest on the debt. If we want to balance the budget without a major tax increase, Medicare can not be sacrosanct. Moreover, it shouldn't be sacrosanct. Medicare is a program that takes money from working Americans--either through the special Medicare tax or through general taxes or through future payments on the national debt--and pays it to retirees. Many of these retirees are poorer than the average worker, but many...