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With the demands and constraints imposed on our lives, it is easy for motivation to falter. This common problem for Harvard students, for whom life can turn into a big blur, is perpetuated by the very tempo at which we conduct our lives...
After intermission, the Mendelssohn's Third Symphony greeted the audience with bright colorful chords. With force, the orchestra traded the theme throughout the orchestra, the violinists' hands becoming nothing but a blur from the rapid bowing. The orchestra members' faces crinkled by concentration, the rapid succession of each measure reached a point of chromatic suspended progression, only to return back to the frantic rapidity, ending in a clever pizzicato ending...
...have been waiting for approximately three months and I am starting to develop a weird neck twitch from the anxiety and the fear. January, February and March have begun to blur into one long, cold waiting period. While I have not yet had sleepless nights in which I stars at my ceiling anxious about my summer, I know that they are coming soon. I am constantly assuring myself not to worry and to stop demonstrating obsessive-compulsive behavior--an internship, any internship will come. My friends no longer bring up the topic of summer plans because I tend to start...
...fully absorb the complexities of Lin's remarkable performance. HRO lockstep accompaniment was seamless. The sheer physicality of the performance was mesmerizing. Stretching string players and puffing wind players provided little visual contrast to Lin as he leaned and swayed with his violin, and the stage seemed a kinesthetic blur of motion as the insistent, piercing violin relentlessly piled the tension higher. Huge silences punctuated the cadenza; Lin masterfully made the gaping gaps of sound as arresting and palpable as his pure high melodies or mellifluous low phrases. He dared the orchestra to return after the end of his virtuosic...
...combination over content. When ShaunRyder sings about sexism, he is in a sense mockingit, defusing it with the same sarcasm thatdeflates everything he touches. Just what BlackGrape believes is Stupid, Stupid, Stupid isobvious. Laughing as they rocket over the egoismof grunge and the self-conscious stylism of Oasisand Blur, Black Grape has no inclination not toalso leave political music in the scrap heap. Whenit comes to humor, there is intelligence in seeingthe commonalties between politically correctnessand training wheels. In the middle of "Lonely," adrunk Shaun Ryder makes an edifying "It's up toyou" speech; in an interview he said...