Word: cusp
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American opera and the national pastime have two things in common: devoted fans and Cooperstown, N.Y. Located a few miles from the Baseball Hall of Fame in this upstate town, the Glimmerglass Opera is famed for imaginative productions featuring young American singers on the cusp of major careers. This summer, for its 25th anniversary season, it will present four works in repertory, including the well-known--La Boheme and Salome--and the neglected: Handel's Acis and Galatea and The Glass Blowers, a 1913 operetta by John Philip Sousa. Though he became conductor of the U.S. Marine Band...
...transition slowly happening," Williams said. "I've met so many people that are on the cusp. Everyone is hungry for something...
...zero-sumness is a kind of potential, a potential for mutually bad outcomes or mutually good outcomes. And it is self-regenerating. The more of it you turn into win-win outcomes, the more new games are created. We are on the cusp of this planet's 4 billion-year-old expansion of non-zero-sumness. We decide whether it will keep growing and how smoothly it will grow. Kind of makes us seem important, doesn...