Word: brasses
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...Brass-Hat Rebellion...
...Busch Hall Sonatas for Flute and PianoFogg Art Museum Calderwood Courtyard Lowkeys: Co-ed A CappellaHarvard Yard Stage The Bass ViolinHolden Chapel On The HeirLoker Commons Dance FestivalLowell Lecture Hall Harbison String Quartet No. 1Memorial Church Music for Clarinet and PianoPaine HallProkofiev Sonata for Two ViolinsPhillips Brooks House Harvard Brass! Sanders Theatre Aikido DemonstrationScience Center D2:30 PM Duelling Lutes: Music for Two GuitarsAdolphus Busch Hall Divided We FallCarpenter Center Wafted, by Angels, Safely AboveCarpenter Center Liszt: Piano and WaterFogg Art Museum Calderwood Courtyard Saptaswara: World FusionHarvard Yard Stage Choral Works A CappellaHolden Chapel Celtic Music ShowcaseLoker Commons Japanese...
...fourth movement’s “Thunderstorm” was the most convincing with its crisp brass pronouncements of thunder and windy string runs...
Open revolts by the top military brass against their civilian minders are rare but not unprecedented. General MacArthur objected to Harry Truman's handling of the Korean War and was fired in 1951. The Air Force didn't like the way Lyndon Johnson handpicked bombing targets during the Vietnam War. And Bill Clinton had to back down after he ordered the Pentagon to openly admit homosexuals in 1993 by settling on the narrower "Don't ask, don't tell" policy...
...active duty. "I think," said former U.S. Central Command boss Anthony C. Zinni, a retired Marine four star, "a lot of people are biting their tongues." But not everyone: some still in uniform have criticized the retirees for speaking up now instead of before the war, when the brass accepted Rumsfeld's demands for a smaller, lighter force. But one consistent part of the indictment is that Rumsfeld made clear he wouldn't listen to views that didn't match his own anyway. Lieut. General Newbold made that point in his essay in TIME last week, when he wrote that...