Word: steadfastness
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...desegregation, announced in May, calls for the busing of some 25,000 students, up from 18,000 last year, to ensure that the racial mixture at most Boston schools approximates the citywide student ratio of 52% white, 36% black and 12% other minorities. But the Boston school committee, a steadfast opponent of busing, has been stalling on preparations for transportation, security and other matters. Recently, Garrity postponed school opening by one week, to Sept. 8, to give the school committee more time to act. Last week, with busing procedures still in chaos, the judge summoned committee members to his courtroom...
...fact, the audience loved everything-as well it might. What other troupe can offer not only Kirkland's gossamer softness but the grand, regal style of Cynthia Gregory; the quiet, understated eloquence of Martine van Hamel; the boyish, leaping lyricism of Fernando Bujones; the courtly, steadfast partnering of Ivan Nagy and Ted Kivitt...
...light of the illuminating new Boris mounted by the Metropolitan last winter (TIME, Dec. 30) and based on Mussorgsky's original version, one can question the Bolshoi's steadfast adherence to the gaudy Rimsky-Korsakov re-orchestration. The Met-Mussorgsky rendering makes Boris the protagonist in a true psychological drama; the Bol-shoi-Rimsky production, virtually unchanged for 28 years, makes him more the central figure in a historical pageant. His fellow 17th century Russians emerge, as it were, frieze-dried...
...French, the unorthodox modes of American warfare, the ingenious makeshifts and improvisations of American commanders who had not had the advantage of being bred in a rigid European military etiquette (Americans would actually fight at night, in the woods and on rainy days), and the steadfast, courageous leadership of George Washington. In retrospect it might be more accurate to say that the British lost, than that the Americans...
Privately, Palestinian leaders fear that they are losing support from heretofore steadfast allies. Saudi Arabia's new King Khalid has in effect acknowledged Israel's right to exist by saying: "Israel can live within her 1967 borders." Russia's Gromyko has gone a step further by suggesting Soviet guarantees for Israel in return for its withdrawal from occupied territories. Said Zuheir Mohsen, leader of the Syria-based Saiqa group within the P.L.O.: "The parties that really need guarantees are the Palestinians and the Arabs. Gromyko made the mistake of picturing the pyramid standing on its head...