Word: effective
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There was no shuffling of programs. No peeking at watches. No glancing at the hairdo of the woman across the aisle. When the Guarneri String Quartet came to Boston last Friday, they held an entire audience in captivating. The effect was a feeling of anticipation that made it seem as though you were not in Jordan Hall, but in a Sony Theatre. As patrons sat with their necks outstretched and their shoulders leaning forwards, they resembled an audience that might have been anticipating Bruce Willis to defuse a bomb or Keanu Reeves to board a bus--not four smallish string...
...harmonic and melodic unpredictability--there was, nonetheless, room for moments of sensitive contemplation that the Guarneri String Quartet used in making the piece as cerebral as melodic. Their second piece, Bela Bartok's String Quartet No. 6, presented (as those familiar with Bartok can imagine) a very different effect. Bartok regarded the string quartet as "a laboratory of advancing musical ideas." In this spirit of experimentation, Bartok tested different principles of tonality and deviated from a traditional harmonic structure. The Guarneri String Quartet gave an interpretation of Bartok's experimentation that seemed chaotic, disconcordant and--in Bartok's spirit--utterly...
...according to a report released to the New York Times yesterday by the American Association of University Women, "Separated by Sex: A Critical Look at Single-Sex Education for Girls," the same-sex atmosphere does not have a significant effect on women's ability to learn. The report, based on several past studies of same-sex Catholic, foreign and independent schools, says that although female students feel more confident in the single-sex classroom, the environment offers them no added academic value...
...Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70, directorof admissions at Harvard and a graduate of WinsorSchool, the single-sex experience plays no role inadmissions committee decisions. McGrath says theoffice has no evidence that all-women schoolsbetter prepare female students for college thanco-educational schools, or even that theireducational environment has a different effect onstudents...
...indeed. Just one day after the asteroid slammed into the media maelstron, the ripple effect was astonishing. John Walvoord, chancellor of the Dallas Theological Seminary, said the asteroid ?may be a foreshadowing of the second coming of Christ.? Dr. Edward Teller, the father of the H-bomb, advocated planting a nuclear device on its rocky surface. And -- surprise, surprise -- Marsden himself smiled meekly from the front page of Friday?s New York Times. Which could go a long way toward answering Don Yeomans? question...