Word: counterpointed
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...professor, Anthony Martin of Wellesley's Africana studies department, sued Avik S. Roy over an article Roy contributed to the fall 1993 issue of Counterpoint, a joint MIT-Wellesley undergraduate magazine...
Around the time of Counterpoint article, Martinwas being attacked across the country for hisclassroom use of a book published by the Nation ofIslam...
...Counterpoint, which was started by Roy in 1991,had a circulation of about 1500-2000 when theMartin article was published...
Unquestionably, McGwire's feats of 1998 were granted a deeper dimension by the presence of his confederate, the ecstatic Sammy Sosa. Here was a joyous, ebullient counterpoint to McGwire's more sedate self. From the moment in midspring that Sosa launched a sudden torrent of home runs like none ever seen in baseball history--he hit 20 in June alone--the two men were flawlessly scripted antagonists cast in the same play. This was rapture vs. gravity, spontaneity vs. self-restraint, Latin brio vs. California cool. Their collision seemed inevitable; yet what ensued was less a crash than...
...opera by recording it in January with Mapleshade Records, and possibly by staging repeat performances during the summer festival season. Talking about the work, John Allanbrook said he doesn't "think anyone else writes like that; you might compare it to Hindemith because it has a lot of counterpoint, but it has a much sweeter tonality--all these things interlocking." Perhaps the uniqueness of the sound, and the connections it makes will allow it to be the "moderately preformed opera in the American circuit" that Allanbrook Jr. hopes for. It would seem a mistake to miss the world premeire...