Word: satyagraha
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...itself and draw new audiences, Durkin is a marketer's dream: 1.8 m tall and gobsmackingly glamorous, her cultural reference points are as much James Bond as James Levine, the Met's famed musical director, who has cast her as lead soprano in its 2008 production of Philip Glass' Satyagraha. Last May, Durkin sang alongside such luminaries as Karita Mattila, Pl?cido Domingo and Natalie Dessay as the company farewelled outgoing general manager Joseph Volpe, and already some of their luster is rubbing off. But for someone who only seven years ago was helping put up the sets for Opera Australia...
...philosophy and science as deeply influencing the European Renaissance, a primary foundation of later Western thought. Much of modern science and technology draws from Arabic origins—numerals, algebra, trigonometry, navigation—as well as Chinese innovations—paper, printing and the compass. Gandhian ideals of satyagraha as expressed through the civil disobedience movements of African-Americans have further contributed to Western liberal thinking...
...ends did not justify the means. On the contrary, it was the character of the means used that determined the nature of the ends achieved. Violence will result in further violence. The infernal spiral must be turned back by any means possible. And by holding on to truth, satyagraha...