"Something primitive in his music language reaches the human psyche and moves all humanity.
With Dryden and Swift the English language reached its full maturity.
And as the language reaches for scabrousness, savage wit, flashy nihilism, the strain often shows.
He contended that language reaches a broader audience, and situating language in contexts outside traditional art-viewing settings, such as art museums, furthers that reach.
He has made a point of changing America's tone and body language, reaching out to the Muslim world in Cairo, offering "engagement" to Iran, bowing to China's Hu Jintao and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah.
And Debussy's more puckish, mischievous side could be heard just below the surface of the faster movements of Mr. Boulez's "12 Notations" (1945), even if the spare, sometimes mechanistic language reached toward a universe where Debussy sounded quaint.
Topol leaves the poetic touches to Thompson, whose rhythmic language reaches its full flowering in the beautiful closing monologue, delivered by Nehrjas Al Saffarh (the immensely gifted Heather Raffo), a middle-class Iraqi woman who was tortured, along with her sons, under Saddam Hussein, and then died when her house was bombed by the United States, in the Gulf War.
In context, there's little for Mr. Millson's matinee idol-like Hudetz to do, beyond look buffeted this way and that in a narrative that takes him into solitary confinement and out again, his language reaching ever more determinedly toward God.
His language reached at times for the inspiration and idealism of the civil rights movement, but for the most part addressed the politics of race in straightforward terms that seemed intended to keep the discussion grounded in the realities of the moment.
It was then extended to mark a republican tradition or political language reaching back to classical antiquity.
Once language reached a developed state, people began to establish alliances and friendships, which contributed further to collective security.
