Word: counterpoint
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While drainpipe journalism is nothing new to The Crimson your attacks on the Conservative Club are. In the past few years the Conservative Club has offered a notable counterpoint to prevailing liberal opinion on the Harvard campus. We have hosted speakers including Senator Eugene McCarthy, now Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, Nestor Sanchez from the Dept. of Defense, leaders of the Nicaraguan contras, Professors Richard Pipes, Harvey Mansfield, and many others. The views of these and other speakers receive wide currency outside Harvard, if not necessarily on campus, and we have found that many students are interested in hearing...
...author shrewdly uses the dilemmas of leadership as counterpoint to three narratives of Bostonians who suffered through the school battles. The Twymons are a fatherless, churchgoing black family of seven, dependent on public assistance. Alice McGoff is an Irish Catholic widow of a blue-collar worker; she and her seven children live in public housing in the ethnically isolated Charlestown section. Colin and Joan Diver are white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, motivated by liberal compassion. They see themselves and their two sons as "urban pioneers" in the integrated South End, the husband working in city and state government, the wife directing...
...pedagogue who had taught Aaron Copland and ; Virgil Thomson. "Boulanger believed that the training we got in America was simply not thorough enough," says Glass. "She was convinced that at age 27 I had to redo completely my musical education." As the oldest member of the Boulangerie, he studied counterpoint six to eight hours a day. To help make ends meet, he worked as an extra in films for a daily wage of 75 francs, or about...
...arguing counterpoint is The New York Times Elaine Sciolino, who wrote in February, without attribution, that Khomeini "was revered as a learned Shiite scholar, maybe a bit eccentic but certainly dangerous...
Goldberg saw this division as needless. "Bach's able to do these technical acrobatics with counterpoint, but that's not the point. It's music and it sounds beautiful. Sometimes people make an artificial dichotomy between this scientific aspect and the musical one. That isn't there," he said...