Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mahler's exquisite, often tortured, self-consciousness; the metaphysical beneath the moody, vivid surfaces. In struggling to understand fate, Mahler found despair, strength, ineffable loss and radiant affirmation. Yet it is ultimately in the music's unpredictable juxtapositions, its intensifications and easings, its shifts in perspective, its encompassing grasp of powerful and disparate emotions, that we find Mahler -- and ourselves...
...protective and intuitive senses society demands. Her job at the local dry cleaner is so comforting, compared to the rest of her daily experiences, that Martha often shows up on her day off. Morris triumphantly evokes the sad, vivid life of a character excluded, for reasons she cannot grasp, from the magic circle of friendship and family...
...protective and intuitive senses society demands. Her job at the local dry cleaner is so comforting, compared to the rest of her daily experiences, that Martha often shows up on her day off. Morris triumphantly evokes the sad, vivid life of a character excluded, for reasons she cannot grasp, from the magic circle of friendship and family...
...services already screen all personnel and recruits for the AIDS virus and reject applicants who test positive. And Defense Department lawyers did not raise the AIDS issue in arguing the academy's case. Steffan's attorney, Paula Ettelbrick, said Gasch "reached out to grasp some other rationale" for barring homosexuals because the old anti-gay arguments had lost credibility. Gasch made his attitude clear during a hearing, when he called Steffan a "homo...
...entire air corps, detached from the Russian front. The two divisions of the Afrika Korps were resupplied and refreshed, and in June 1942 Rommel captured Tobruk -- earning from the Fuhrer the rank of field marshal. Egypt, Suez and the oil of the Middle East now seemed within his grasp. Hitler, warned by more cautious advisers to be wary about proceeding toward Cairo, nonetheless ordered that operations "be continued until the British forces are completely annihilated . . . The goddess of fortune passes only once close to warriors in battle. Anyone who does not grasp her at that moment can very often never...