Word: steadfastness
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...series opener is 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier,' in which the Tin Soldier (Viktor Plotnikov) pursues a Paper Ballerina (Larissa Ponomarenko) as a Jack-in-the-Box (Yuri Yanowski) tries to thwart their budding love by throwing the Tin Soldier out the window...
...final ballet, the world premiere of 'The Princess and the Pea,' has the same festive yet unremarkable quality of 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier'. It saved from absolute mediocrity only by a troop of adorable dancing mattresses and one hilarious performance...
...visit to the U.S., Pope John Paul II went to New Jersey, New York and Maryland and brought to the United Nations an appeal for cultural diversity. He told his American audiences not to ignore the poor and the vulnerable, and he reiterated many of the themes--including his steadfast opposition to abortion--that have led to the greatest paradox of his papacy in the U.S.: widespread dissent from many of his teachings on morality but immense affection for him personally...
...baseball has not yet fully recovered. Attendance at most parks is down and there will still be squabbles about money, about T.V. contracts, about small and large markets. But behind all of this remains a great sport. And if resilient, persevering and steadfast could describe any sport, it would be baseball...
There are a lot of things McCorvey has done and been that Jane Roe's millions of admirers probably wish she hadn't. Until she unmasked herself publicly in 1989, they could imagine Roe as noble and steadfast, embattled yet triumphant. They didn't envision a former drug addict and dealer; someone so spiritually needy that she ran through religions as if channel surfing; someone testy enough to (in the presence of a Texas Monthly reporter) invite a critic who accused her of killing babies to "bring yours over here and we'll do them...