Word: whether
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Even then, even among admiring critics, there were grumblings about his reluctance to develop a broader repertoire. "The young man will have to make up his mind," said one, "whether he wants to be an artist or a flesh-and- blood jukebox." Though Cliburn went on performing as many as 100 concerts a year for the next two decades (which did include some Mozart, Chopin, Prokofiev), the authoritative New Grove Dictionary has summed up his fading career by saying that "he could not cope with the loss of freshness; his . . . playing took on affectations . . . He stopped performing...
...that the freedoms symbolized by Old Glory include the right to desecrate it. -- Stung by public outrage over its last attempt to raise its pay, Congress mulls trading a raise for major reforms. -- Whose art is it? Cancellation of an exhibit by a controversial photographer triggers a debate over whether the Government is funding pornography...
...First Amendment has never entertained a blush factor. Free artistic expression is broadly guaranteed. The question is whether the right of free expression carries along with it the privilege of federal subsidy. New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, who tore up the Serrano catalog on the Senate floor, concedes the artist's "right to produce filth" but adds that "taxpayers' dollars should not be utilized to promote...
...Soviets had no immediate response. But U.S. critics promptly charged that the Bush Administration was avoiding tough questions, like whether to scrap the Star Wars antimissile system, and deliberately delaying a START agreement. The Administration, warned Senator Joseph Biden, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, may have committed a "major blunder...
...tension fairly crackled in the Stockholm courtroom as Lisbet Palme, the widow of assassinated Prime Minister Olof Palme, was asked whether the man she had seen just after the shooting of her husband more than three years ago was present. "Yes," she answered, indicating Christer Pettersson, 42, a confessed drug addict who is charged with murdering Palme. "Are you sure?" asked the prosecutor. After looking briefly at Pettersson, Mrs. Palme answered with a second...