Word: spotlight
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Syndicated columnist Ann Landers said last night that she sees her column as an opportunity to "shine a spotlight on fear, stupidity and unearned guilt...
...report was written six months ago by Israel Koenig, 45, a Polish-born member of Israel's highly conservative National Religious Party and, since 1967, the Interior Ministry's top officer for Galilee. Koenig's report, never intended for publication, was meant to spotlight what many Jews consider the country's most serious domestic problem at present: the growing numerical strength and rising nationalism of Israel's Arab citizens. They now number 430,000, or one-seventh of Israel's total population, and their birth rate is four times as high as that...
...students and workers struggling for democratic rights. At best, we expected the government to rubber-stamp Harvard's performance. But we were also aware that the arrival of the federal reviewers offered us a unique opportunity to bring our case to the national public and put the spotlight on the U.S. government for, not only its non-enforcement of Affirmative Action, but also its tacit and active support for national, racial and sexual discrimination, particularly as evidenced at Harvard...
...Ghiaurov as Banquo. On the podium was Claudio Abbado, the company's former music director who, at 43, is a conductor of international stature. The production was conceived and staged by Italy's Giorgio Strehler (see box). For Strehler, it was one of three moments in the spotlight. His staging of Figaro was the first hit of the Paris Opéra's run in New York. This week La Scala will introduce his production of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra...
Though the suspense-filled Republican struggle has temporarily forced Jimmy Carter out of the spotlight, the Democratic presidential nominee is in no danger of reverting to the "Jimmy who?" of pre-primary days. He is, in fact, continuing to exude-and to convey-such an aura of confidence that editors of the Scribner-Bantam English Dictionary have thrown caution to the winds. For a new edition to appear next January, they drafted an entry reading: "Carter, James /kart'ar/ n (1924-) 39th president of the U.S. 1977-." Although the listing can be deleted if Carter should lose the election...