Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing this?" asked a woman in the fast-swelling crowd. Speaking in hesitant Russian, 24-year-old New Yorker Vicky Rovere answered: "Because of my conscience." It was not a satisfactory answer. Another woman shouted "Provocateur!" and a third tried to lead Vicky away. Most of the leaflets were torn up. Within five minutes the police arrived, and Vicky tossed her remaining leaflets high in the air. Immediately, she was punched hard in the stomach by an elderly man. "That," she said, "was not very nice of you." Across the square, Andrew Papworth, also 24, and sporting a T shirt...
...vocally velvet. Right at the start, in the opening Habanera, she rejected the tradition that makes Carmen a menacing femme fatale. "The music of the Habanera is not heavy," she says. "It is elegant, light, playful, seductive. If Carmen is nasty all the time, who needs that kind of woman, really?" Instead, Verrett was childish, beautiful, desirable -the kind of woman other women like despite her sexual superiority. "Then when she gets angry at Don José in the third act, it's a different character," Verrett explains. Lighthearted before, Carmen now senses only doom in her affair with...
...pair, a man and a woman, came down from the crane after appeals from the University Police, and Cambridge police and firemen on the scene, police said...
...would be unfair to suggest that the atmosphere in Israel is at all oppressive. Ultimately, no Israeli doubts that he must maintain a certain posture when confronting the constant threat from outside. The Israeli woman was probably not expressing dissatisfaction so much as fatigue...
...strong nationalistic impulses are not those placed by the government on the people, or by some individuals on others, but rather by individuals on themselves. And no individual will allow himself a day without the tension between security and fear. Her companion's challenge would not prevent the Israeli woman's raising soon again the issue of excessive militarism, but her own self-discipline would...