Word: burnes
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That radiance is fully celebrated by Levine. At 41 already a brilliant conductor of Parsifal, he views Lohengrin as a kind of musical prequel to Wagner's last work. He adopted a daringly slow _ tempo for the Act I prelude, letting it burn with a fervid religiosity, but gave the chorus and onstage "brass players thrilling free rein in the opera's frequent boisterous moments. Levine has mastered the sense of timelessness so crucial to successful Wagner performances in general, and static works like Lohengrin in particular; one looks forward to the day, two seasons hence, when...
Residents of Leverett B-42, trying to burn a wet log in their fireplace without a grill or screen, sent smoke into the hallway that set off all the fire alarms in the entry, Harvard Police said yesterday...
Ninety-one malfunctioning computers with "burn-in" problems ranging from bad memory switches to diskette drive failures have been brought to an IBM service center on the B-school campus since being distributed over Labor Day weekend, said Frayda Galvin '59, B-school academic services coordinator...
What is so enervating is that the dander comes in large measure from inside your own mind, Enveloped in official lies, swathed in ... ironic smile, smothered in warm and generous friendliness that can burn cold at an order from above, you exist in the knowledge that at any moment of the state's choosing it can manipulate your surrounding environment gradually or dramatically to cause slight discomfort or excruciating pain. So you begin to take a defensive posture. You feel guilt over ordinary acts of courtesy goodwill toward Russians who want book they cannot get, for instance...
...buoyed for short distances by wind-blown rain. Florida's last bout of canker, in 1913, took more than 20 years and $6 million (the equivalent of more than $60 million today) to eradicate. Poorer regions such as Mexico and Asia, however, which cannot afford to burn groves, are frequently plagued by canker. And with an active source of infection in the world, it was only a matter of time before the blight invaded the U.S. once again...