Word: contestation
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...restored in the fourth movement, where the tune—inspired by the Russia of Stravinsky’s birth—smoothed out once again.Then the orchestra performed “Night Dance Ritual” by Lim, the winner of the BachSoc’s yearly composition contest. Lim truly had a voice of her own. The piece was eerie, beginning uncertainly with a rumbling timpani. As the dissonant strings evoked a dark world—with the cellos mourning and the harp dancing—the flute flew in search of light.Although the brass section sounded poor...
...final regular-season contest against Cornell might not be crucial, but its result can certainly make the Crimson’s path to the NCAAs easier—or harder...
...character spends his life producing 500-page-plus refutations of philosophers ranging from Voltaire to Rousseau, including a five-volume critique of Sartre’s “Being and Nothingness.” Another character’s play combines scenes of rape with a masturbation contest (judged in three categories: thickness, length, “and, most importantly, distance covered by semen”) between the ambassadors of three nations. A third character writes a poem called “Concentration Camp” that, we’re told, “is the humorous...
Even in Texas, where only a couple of weeks ago Mike Huckabee thought he could rely on the heavy Evangelical presence to give John McCain a real primary fight, the Republican race no longer looks like a serious contest. But while Huckabee may no longer be in a position to sway the outcome of the Republican presidential primary/caucus on Tuesday, he does stand to have a profound impact on another crucial, and potentially more controversial, vote that same...
December's election saw incumbent President Mwai Kibaki, who belongs to the Kikuyu tribe, defeat opposition leader Raila Odinga, a Luo, in a contest that opposition supporters said was rigged. Kenyans, who often vote along tribal lines, then found themselves caught in ethnic clashes marked by swinging machetes, soaring stones and flying arrows that have left hundreds dead. Hospitals and morgues saw instance after instance of victims with arrows lodged in their heads and chests. A peace deal was struck Thursday between Kibaki and Odinga, establishing a coalition government. But some Kenyans fear the violence is not yet over, blaming...