Word: die
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...fact, Scott's mediocre shooting statistics (10-23) over the weekend are not so much a testament to his poor play as they are to his willingness to take the weight of the team on his shoulders. Scott tried to carry a team in die need of leadership and a clear vision of its purpose on the floor...
...programming his music. Cleveland tried to pick seven crowd-pleasers, but the lied, an intimate genre for solo voice and piano, does not always survive orchestration. The two songs that Brahms transcribed, "Memnon" and "An Schwager Kronos," not surprisingly, were very successful. But Kurt Gillman's "Du Bist Die Ruh" and Felix Mottl's "Standchen" invited exuberance and high volume where restraint and calm would have better served the lilting melodies...
...original "Du Bist Die Ruh," the piano keeps repeating a gently undulating phrase that is the ideal accompaniment for the song's simple melody. It is not a phrase for a harp to pluck--this "Ruh" was more irritating than peaceful. Baer seemed uncomfortable with the music being made around him, yet the strength of his voice did not waver. Like most people, he probably regretted Gillman's decision to end the song with a drum roll...
...Dickey won the National Book Award for Buckdancer's Choice. Readers made a connection between Vietnam and his poem The Firebombing, which recorded an ex-pilot's agony as, 20 years after World War II, he meditated on the holocaust he had dropped upon Japan: "...when those on earth/ Die there is not even sound; one is cool and enthralled in the cockpit/ Turned blue by the power of beauty/ ...this detachment/ The honored aesthetic evil..." Dickey took on a passing Hollywood glamour in the '70s, when Deliverance became a best seller and Burt Reynolds starred in the movie...
Essentially, Kennedy conceded that he is a liberal. Binswanger's position revealed the egotism of the objectivist (a.k.a. God), in his declarations that the poor are stupid, uncreative, and should be left to die...