Word: therein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot tell people to disobey the law and not expect them to have a disrespect for the law. You cannot keep telling them that they are being abused and mistreated without expecting them to react." Riots such as those in Los Angeles have no real object-and therein lies the pity and the danger...
Atonal Dream. Shirley is far from embarrassed about his race, but he is a tenor, and therein lies the problem. In recent years, Negro basses and baritones have been accepted on the opera stage in large measure because the parts available to them are almost exclusively character roles. Tenors, on the other hand, are nearly always the romantic leads, and despite the increasing liberality of audiences, explains Shirley, "they don't like the lover of a white girl played by a Negro, make-believe or not." Lest this sensitivity detract from the impact of the opera, Shirley dons...
...most debatable point is that Dante used the Inferno for personal vindictiveness, to damn his political enemies, while demonstrating extreme lenience toward old friends like Brunetto Latini. Dante's work is primarily an inward journey into the soul of everyman and an exposure of the possibilities of evil therein. The figures that Dante encounters, therefore, symbolize evils that the poet condemns in himself as well as in others...
...present watchful waiting. But his relative inaction, especially concerning Viet Nam-where he insists that the U.S. must neither retreat nor expand the war-has created a kind of vacuum. And this vacuum is encouraging a growing chorus advocating U.S. withdrawal or something close to it (see following story). Therein lies perhaps the greatest challenge to Lyndon Johnson's potentially excellent first full term: he will have to master the Great Society, foreign division...
Section 71 of New York State's General Municipal Law says in part: "A city or county shall be liable to a person whose property is destroyed or injured therein by a mob or riot, if the consent or negligence of such person did not contribute to such destruction or injury, and such person shall have used all reasonable diligence to prevent such damage...