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...work also manifests those qualities which make so much post-war music difficult for the untrained ear: irregular tempo, unresolved chords and absence of melody. These qualities were less in evidence in the sonata than in the String Quartet #1, a work which even the composer describes as "grim and terse." The quartet begins with a mysterious Gypsy-like phrase, which is quickly flattened into harshness; the four instruments repeatedly diverge and then return with a burst of two or three dissonant notes. While the quartet is affecting and succeeds in communicating a certain nervous emotion, it is far from...
...face it. All the "Hello Days," "Springfests" and "Gala Balls" in the world aren't going to make students respect and support the Undergraduate Council. It's honest work on relevant matters, responsible stewardship of funds and holding an ear to the ground that will make the council the locus it so desperately and incompetently tries to be. That's something we'd cheer...
...Information will go in a television reporter's ear and out his mouth without ever touching the brain," he said...
...They rose and cheered," Jones says. "The students actually had him for an ear lier course...
...Cross lunch meeting, to the reception for the wife of the Trinidadian Security Minister. Alma leaves friends in stitches by describing hellish dinner parties at which Colin always seems to be sharing a private joke with Princess Diana across the table while Alma has to shout conversation into the ear of an octogenarian. "It's not easy being the tail on Colin's kite," says someone who has seen Alma in action. "But she is always graceful and at ease; she never complains...