Word: alterity
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...neither the bear hugs of Air Force pressagents, the television interviews nor the well-publicized reunion with his wife and daughter would ever alter one basic fact. Never again, as he flew with the high and the mighty, would Jet Pilot Steeves feel quite the same detachment about the earth beneath...
...Othello is, perhaps, the greatest work in the world," wrote that famous man of letters Thomas Macaulay. And nothing, I think, has happened in the century since to alter his verdict. Giraldo Cinthio's story of the Moor of Venice, his ensign Iago and his wife Desdemona has, in fact, been the source of several superlatives: it gave us Rossini's Otello, his finest serious opera; it gave us the best of all Italian opera libretti (by Arrigo Boito), which, when set to music by Verdi, became the supreme Italian tragic opera of the Romantic century; and it gave...
...outburst of devotion that greeted Hirohito's 56th birthday last week was eloquent testimony to the failure of the determined U.S. effort to alter Japan's national character...
...over 26 years, Harvard has been graced by the Lowell House Bells. Until divine justice eradicates them, the bells will continue to be an inescapable fact of life in Cambridge. That they perform no useful or aesthetic function does not alter this fact. They are here to stay...
...minor course revision, John J. Conway, assistant professor of History, will alter the scope of his course, History 173, "The History of Canada...