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...transcended ordinary expectations with its performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Op. 35. While the appearance of conductor James Yannatos met with the hearty approbation of the audience, the advent of the 1997-98 concerto competition winner produced a reaction more akin to an electric shock. The phenomenon calling himself Joseph Lin '00 strode onto the stage, sweet-faced and supremely self-possessed, and immediately filled Sanders with his charismatic stage presence. Yannatos exchanged a few words with him, then plunged into the beginning of the concerto. Lin remained imperturbable as he hoisted his violin onto his shoulder during...
...others--a broad, unique musical form. The '20s saw the rise of the Hollywood studio system, which had grown from its humble origins among (mostly immigrant Jewish) nickelodeon proprietors into the most powerful industry for the invention and spread of dreams in human history, at least until the advent of TV. Walt Disney invented a little mouse, no larger than a man's thumb, that would become a behemoth...
Along with the advent of the HSAEntrepreneurial Contest, the 40th anniversarymarks HSA's first year in their new residence at67 Mount Auburn Street in Burke-McCoy Hall...
Despite all these changes, it is remarkable at how much has also stayed the same. The Crimson is still a newspaper, printed on newsprint and hand delivered to its subscribers. People read a 1998 Crimson much in the same way they read an 1873 Magenta. With the advent of television and radio, the newspaper still remains the preeminent way to distribute Harvard news...
Although James Bond was never one to be coy or reserved, the claim that his agent ship is secret becomes an increasingly ridiculous assertion with the advent of each new film. The bad guys in each movie must all have flunked out of elementary bad guy school, where dealing with James Bond is a more important part of the curriculum than even sections devoted to Superman and proper income tax return techniques. They were most assuredly all absent the day The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was shown and Eli Wallach's priceless gem of wisdom was studied: "When...