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...suggest ethnicity. Robbins' choreography matches the music, sometimes cliché for cliché. When the orchestra explodes in a burst of Yiddish song, dancers sway sinuously, as if at a ghetto wedding. There are great yaps of brass at Big Moments of high stress; on stage, the performers thrust splayed hands to the skies or to the audience as if they had just discovered Martha Graham...
...action was wrong both morally and tactically, but it was directed at preventing future massacres of Israeli civilians, and its stated goal was to strike at terrorist bases and not at civilians. Though this does not justify the air raids, it differentiates them from the Palestinian attack, the clear thrust of which was at civilians--in this case, mostly children...
...thrust of the 1,308 pages of the transcript is that the President was trying to save his own skin and would consider almost any option, however bizarre, if it would help him do that...
...assume its responsibility in the present political structure," said Cunhal. "We must all remain united and work with the junta to consolidate the gains of April 25th," said Soares, who was enthusiastic after meeting Spínola. "What intellectual stature this man has," he said. "He accepted what was thrust upon him by the revolution, and he has done a great thing for his people...
Brother Roger's work with young people and his efforts toward Christian renewal were enough to win him the second annual Templeton Prize, an $80,000 award by the U.S.-based Templeton Foundation to a person "who has inspired a new thrust in religion and contributed to the knowledge and love of God." Two weeks ago at Windsor Castle, Prince Philip presented the prize. Brother Roger plans to give the money to poor young people who share the Taizé ideal of "struggle and contemplation." He began by leaving part of it to youths struggling for peace in Northern...