Word: ear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music of such composers as Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Sibelius, Ravel and Debussy. Here he conducts with color and sweep, with glowing sonorities and vivid details. If he has seemed short on profound emotion or penetrating insight, notably into classical composers like Mozart and Beethoven, his musicianship-his pitch, timing and ear for balances and shadings-has always been impeccable. Having inherited a great ensemble from Stokowski, he made it greater. He has hired virtually all of the orchestra's 106 members and molded them into a unit renowned for its tonal sheen and bravura. As he has said: "The Philadelphia...
...issue is not one of technique; this was not merely a "mistake," a "blunder," a "screw-up." The use of military force was unjustified and wrong. It was wrong because President Carter acted as he has always acted, with an ear to the polls and feeling the sting of a defeat in the Pennsylvania primary. It was wrong because eight American soldiers died in an unnecessary military action. It was wrong because it was conducted in complete secrecy, in defiance of the spirit of a democratic society, as embodied in the War Powers...
During his three-year tenure as associate dean, Bowersock provided an accessible and sensitive ear for students' concerns. He was also a vocal champion of academic reform, most notably in the areas of drama courses for credit and tutorials...
...duration and intensity it sounded like a twelve-gauge-shotgun blast six inches from my ear. I had been holding my breath. I let it out with a shout of pure joy. I was still alive! I shook my fist at the wildly pitching sky. "Kill me!" I shouted. "Go ahead and try! I don't care! I DON'T CARE...
...these and other mystics gained Brown's ear, the Governor's political pros resigned, including Finance Chairman Anthony Dougherty and Campaign Chairman Thomas Quinn, one of Brown's most trusted and able aides. "Jerry began to believe he was the founder of a new movement, a messiah of sorts," says one former staffer. "He sat around with these people all hours of the night talking about his role as the only person who could prevent nuclear war. He seemed to lose sight of the fact that a successful political operation calls for organization and money." Says former...