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Across the country, then, divinity schools connected with major universities have been dropping their Th.D.s or changing them to Ph.D.s, and Harvard appears to be on the brink of joining the trend...
...necessity for dissonances to resolve to consonances similarly disappeared. Large sections of music could no longer be draped on conventional cadential patterns or sequences. The composer was left with no rules and no guidelines-nothing but the twelve tones and the desperate need to organize them coherently. On the brink of what he saw as musical chaos, Schoenberg stopped composing until he could create a new system for organizing his materials and justifying his decisions, a new framework of music...
...that moment last Saturday night Jimmy Cliff was giving himself to an audience neither young, punkish, nor unfamiliar with his music, but which also had a blind faith in the reggae singer. From his first number, Fundamental Reggae, the house was alive and poised on the brink of each high-throated, smooth verse, silent in the lyric wave of his high-pitched voice, screaming in the abatement of its flow...
Then, if New York again teeters on the very brink of default, Congress can quickly debate, approve and send to Ford an orderly, well-considered rescue plan...
...other hand the extent of starvation is almost certainly exaggerated. We get our "facts" on malnutrition from the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), a highly political body which would be out of work if its own figures didn't conclusively prove the world was on the brink of famine. By fooling around with their definitions one can 'prove' that anywhere from sixty all the way down to a mere fifteen percent of the Bengali population is underfed (fifteen per cent is the figure people often quote for malnutrition in the United States). Although things are bad, Bangladesh...