Word: yieldingness
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La Stupenda really got on with it a few nights later as the star of opening night's new production of Bellini's bel canto classic Norma. Though Sutherland did not warm up until after her cruel Act I setpiece Casta Diva, she has rarely sung as passionately...
Starting in 1951, the Portuguese began playing an international wordgame, changing the names of everything associated with their African possessions. The lands that were formerly called Colonies became Overseas Provinces. The Ministry of Colonies was renamed the Overseas Ministry. The Colonial Governor became the Provincial Governor General. Just his summer...
Korea, moreover, was only one of several prickly situations that seemed to be yielding to a kind of gathering spirit of conciliation. India's Indira Gandhi and Pakistan's Zulfikar Ali Bhutto met in the Himalayan foothills to talk over their deeply entrenched differences. The Viet Nam negotiations...
Harvard's decision to retain its 683,000 shares in Gulf, after the Pan African Liberation Committee (PALC) had reasonably appealed to the University for a publicly announced sale, was doubly irresponsible. For it came with a refusal even to cast a vote of no confidence in the management of...
Poe calls his new specialty "marantology" (from the Greek marantos, meaning withered or wasted). Marantologists would care for those whom no one else wants: the old, the incontinent and the incurable, those who have "committed the sin of remaining alive but not yielding to our manipulations." Those specialists, says Poe...