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Donald cites many examples of Lincoln's reliance on humor to get a point across and to diffuse a difficult or awkward situation. Donald describes how Lincoln used an anecdote to convey his wish that Jefferson Davis and other high-ranking leaders of the Confederacy be allowed to flee the country. He could not state this openly. As president he would be obligated to hunt down and execute the traitors, but as a man believing in "malice towards none, charity for all," he just wished they would disappear. Lincoln told Sherman a story "about a man who declined a drink...
...play, directed by Randall Arney, is disserved by a patchy cast. Susan Floyd flattens three potentially diverse roles (a seductive model, a brainy countess, a gushing "admirer") into one ditsy ingenue. As the wife of the bar's proprietor, Rondi Reed declaims, but does not convey, the pathos of a woman who bleakly sees through the egotism of much male solicitude. Hopper makes a sweet Picasso: you can believe he painted harlequins but not minotaurs. Most satisfying is Nelson as Einstein; a diminutive figure, he expresses something of an atom's compacted, ferocious potential energy...
...collection of courses is in need of serious analysis," Evans says. "We may need to improve our course offerings to better convey the excitement of chemistry...
...matter, the user interface and operating system of a computer or a network service. After all, who cares what one uses to get to one's destination, just as long as one gets there? Analogously, who cares what language one speaks, just as long as one is able to convey one's point? Of course, the point here is that the language influences the message, just as Orwell wrote. One language is a monopoly on the method of thought...
...contrary to the idea of music embodied by Beethoven and endanger the future of the music itself. Beethoven saw his music as forging a common emotional bond among listeners of all classes--the spreading of the ideas was more important than the actual listening. Pop classical might not convey composers' ideas in the most traditional form, but it does the job nonetheless. If someone enjoys a movement of a Vivaldi concerto on a pop classical disc, perhaps they'll want to buy a complete or "better" recording, and then perhaps they'll listen to Vivaldi's contemporaries, and perhaps later...