Word: steadfast
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...according to George Michanowsky, a scholar of cuneiform writing, they called the planet Sag-Ush, regarding it as a male fertility symbol. The Babylonians, who eventually ruled over that part of Mesopotamia, watched the heavens from the tops of their ziggurats. To them Saturn was known as Kaiamanu (the steadfast one), possibly because, in contrast to nearer planets, it moved so slowly across the skies. Kaiamanu was generally associated with the death of cattle, and other calamities. Perhaps in hopes of better luck, one of the names the Egyptians later gave Saturn was Horus the Bull...
Nicholas is a typical young Dickens hero. Steadfast, upright and much beleaguered, he struggles to maintain a life for his sister and newly widowed mother against the unexpected threats and grim incursions of greedy uncles, sinister aristocrats, crooked politicians and assorted malefactors. He holds down a variety of jobs-perhaps most memorably as an actor playing roles like Romeo in the provincial acting troupe of Mr. Vincent Crummies-but his employment is continually being interrupted by some emergency, as the plot loops round, over and back again on itself...
...always Captain. "When he retires, maybe then I'll think about it." Keeshan celebrated the show's silver anniversary last week in New York along with his family, his cast and some former guest stars. Naturally no Kangaroo court would be complete without the Captain's steadfast companion for a quarter-century, Hugh ("Lumpy") Brannum, better known as Mr. Green Jeans. Like Keeshan or, for that matter, George Burns, Brannum has no intention of hanging up his overalls. "It's been a banner year," he crowed. "Not only did we tape our 7,000th show...
Besides choreography, Balanchine works on everything from posters to hairpieces. He must al ways compensate for emergencies and injuries; the company is hard-hit right now. On the night of the Ballade premiere, both men who dance The Steadfast Tin Soldier, also on the program, could not perform. The company got a little help from an old friend, Mikhail Baryshnikcv. Watching him cavort through the part, one could not help thinking that he, as much as any other dancer, suffered lost opportunities because of Balanchine's illness...
...which the U.S. first fought inflation and then unemployment, have resulted only in more of both. Indeed, in 1965 unemployment was 4.5% and inflation 2%, yet today those figures stand at 7% and 18%. The only long-term solution to the nation's economic ills is a steadfast, although bitter, battle against high prices...