Word: brill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...page works effectively when it is spoken. Nevertheless, it is our charter to honor each story's integrity while adapting it to another medium." The material is recorded at a New York City studio by a team of nine broadcast journalists, including Peter Thomas, Mike Baker and Fran Brill. Says Lande...
...think it is a terrific development. It is a step in the right direction," said Steven Brill, editor of "The American Lawyer," who has written extensively on the subject of law schools" financial...
...over troubled waters, is masterly enough to span that gap. Any record that encompasses doo-wop, Philip Glass and the fragile orchestrations of the French film composer Georges Delerue is bold by any standard. Anyone who writes lyrics that sound like the poet Ted Hughes on sabbatical in the Brill Building rates a very close listen indeed. Simon's musical agility and lyrical literacy may seem suspect to an audience that wants its rock rougher. He irrefutably proves that hard edges run a poor second to deep thought. Hearts and Bones explores the gap between thought and feeling. Think...
...Brill's ultimate failure to unite successfully knowledge and religion does not imply that the two are utterly irreconcilable. In fact, because the intellectual Hester stands by her daughter when Brill beseeches her to abandon hope, she illustrates the hope of fusing both strands. Based on solely Brill's behavior, it is possible to interpret Ozick's ultimate stance as anti-intellectual. Yet closer inspection reveals The Cannibal Galaxy as a plea for knowledge tempered by Christian love, to pursue knowledge and ambition without ever losing sight of one's family, one's past, and one's beliefs...
...Martha Brill Olcott is a Research Fellow at Harvard's Russian Research Center and another of an article entitled "Soviet Islam and World Revolution," which appeared in World Politics...