Word: push
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...eleven years last November. In addition to Chopin mazurkas and Debussy preludes, he played a work of his own composition called The Myth of Sisyphus. Souss says the sonata was actually intended as a kind of anti-myth of Sisyphus, the legendary King of Corinth whose fate was to push a boulder up a mountain throughout eternity. As such, it represents a musical interpretation of Souss's belief "that man must take destiny into his own hands." Born in Jerusalem in 1945, Souss was only three years old when the Palestinians were expelled from the city after...
ITHACA, N.Y.--An 18-year old freshman at Ithaca College died April 2 after participating for two hours in running, push-ups and sit-ups that were part of a fraternity initiation...
...provides for poor communications, medical services and transportation of the agricultural goods produced by 90 per cent of the workforce. Shah denies that the mere infusion of aid and technology will remold Nepal's political and economic institutions to conform to their Western equivalents. "It's very difficult to push through liberal democracy in a world that is really illiberal," he says. "You cannot change the world with a magic wand...
TERRY IS BY NO MEANS easy to stage, and the Rep's production goes far to surmount the difficulties of this complex and nuance-ridden play. Director John Madden seems, at times, apprehensive of his audience, unsure of how far to push, particularly in Terry Rex. He is on firmer turf in Terry Won't Talk, where the players' stylized panache smoothly implies a production of a production--actors playing actors. Madden's effect is boosted here by the equally stylized sets, always smaller than the stage, parading their artificiality, masterfully created by Andrew Jackness. The Terry of Terry...
Then there is the issue of working with other academic women and providing role models for undergraduate women. If Radcliffe does not see an important role for the Radcliffe Forum in helping graduate women to meet and discuss issues and push for changes, then where will the role models for women undergradutes come from? Given that the university has no women deans, few women professors and an amazing ability to stifle or ignore women's recommendations for change, if graduate women are not supported as women and feminists, where will any encouragement to undergraduate women to change society...