Word: ushering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western diplomats hope he will support a return to civilian rule. Few believe, however, that the military will readily give up its traditional prerogatives. One Western diplomat described the domination of the emergency council by military officers, both active and retired, as "the edge of the wedge" that will usher in military rule...
...everywhere these days, churning out operas, film scores and instrumental music with the tireless industry of an 18th century Kapellmeister. Unlike Haydn, though, Glass has no Prince Esterhazy to keep him in livery, only his appetite for work. In May his The Fall of the House of Usher, based on Poe's grisly tale, opened in Cambridge, Mass. Seven weeks later, the Houston Grand Opera premiered his operatic setting of Doris Lessing's novel The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. Now, and most spectacularly, comes 1000 Airplanes on the Roof in Vienna. The production will tour...
...trying to invent a way for English to be used as a viable music- theater language," says the composer. "Usher was all sung, The Representative used a mixture of speech and song, and 1000 Airplanes is spoken. But I'm still finding my way." As directed by Glass, the piece emerges as a strong statement in which the whole is, for once, equal to the sum of its formidable parts. And for those who care about contemporary music theater, that is good news...
...dignity, but could not disguise the fact that he departed a defeated man. In 1984 the stocky Christian Democrat rode to the presidency on a wave of popular enthusiasm for two of his electoral promises: to bring El Salvador's civil war to an end and to usher in an era of stability. That hope has long since given way to military stalemate, political confusion, social despair and pervasive corruption. When he took office, Duarte was touted by the Reagan Administration as the man who would bring democracy to El Salvador. But Duarte's populist concern with reform soon buckled...
Only in one respect might Reagan be chagrined by what he and Gorbachev have been unable to achieve. The President had wanted to usher in a brave new world in which the aim of diplomacy would be to eliminate nuclear weapons altogether. In that respect he has failed. The past few years have seen a restoration of the traditional goals of arms control. The legacy that Reagan leaves will show remarkable continuity with the one that he inherited. That may be a disappointment to him, but it should be a relief to the rest of the world, since precisely what...