Word: backgrounders
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...music, chosen by director Sniderman, also battles with some of the actors’ elegantly delivered soliloquies. It is hard to concentrate on a sorrowful speech when a woman is light-heartedly tra-la-la-ing in a foreign language in the background...
...death, perhaps returning to Earth after a period in Elysium. Jodi Leigh Allen, who will teach jazz classes next semester at the Harvard Dance Center, choreographed and costumed “B-Side,” another standout premiere. Dancers clad in black moved against a fiery red background to the artificial sounds of a synthesizer to produce a striking effect. The rigid movements of the men contrasted powerfully and sensually with the women’s grace. The ballet “Emeralds,” staged by Heather Watts, featured the choreography of George Balanchine and solo performance...
...playing music. Sacks treats all these cases with a mixture of compassion, humor, and curiosity. He is especially careful not to turn his patients into objects of detached scientific study, always emphasizing their humanity and his own emotional investment in their cases.The essays are filled with easily understandable background scientific information as well as fascinating anecdotes about writers, philosophers, musicians, and composers. It might strike you to learn that John Stuart Mill, for example, turned to music to help ease his chronic depression, or that Ravel, Stravinsky, and Berlioz all composed original music in their dreams. Sacks also includes anecdotes...
...President. Giuliani draws high levels of support among G.O.P. voters who are most concerned about national-security issues, and that describes almost half of Republicans nationally. For those voters, the New Yorker's experience during 9/11 and his foreign policy rhetoric trump any concerns about his character and background...
...perhaps building a diverse student body is enough. “Forcing people to make friends from a different socioeconomic background is, at best laughable,” Conti-Brown, now a student at Stanford Law School, points out. “All that can be done is to continue admitting a critical mass of students, increasing the diversity of the student body [so] that, hopefully diverse friendships can form naturally...