Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nuclear holocaust until he comes to grips intellectually with the complexity of the problem and rejects the easy panaceas of both the Left and the Right. The authors of Living With Nuclear Weapons recognize this; perhaps one day they will be looked on as the men who brought the element of debate to the nuclear debate. That would be success enough...
...wrong element," he explained. "We just want to bring different groups of people to relax together and listen to each others' own kind of music...
...half a decade." Agrees John Edwards, executive vice president and general manager of the Chicago Symphony and, at 70, the dean of U.S. orchestra administrators: "Basically, the concept of a Big Five is outmoded." Determined by the musicians' technical command, the conductor's leadership and the intangible element of inspiration, excellence is no longer quite so exclusive. A current ranking of the country's best orchestras, in order of achievement...
Money is also a critical element, for the best orchestras have tended to be the richest. Boston's annual budget, for example, is $20 million, and Chicago's $16 million. "There isn't a one-to-one correlation between money and having a great orchestra," says Richard Bibler, president of the promising Milwaukee Symphony, which gets by on a budget of about $5 million a year, "but there is a gross correlation." Says Patricia Corbett, who, like her husband J. Ralph Corbett, is a prominent Cincinnati philanthropist: "An orchestra can be anything you want...
...Committee on Educational Policy (CEP) advanced what was then considered a more element proposal allowing ROTC courses to reapply through existing Harvard academic departments. Wilson was selected from the CEP to read the proposal, which won committee approval amidst much dissention. Half the group seemed motivated by the students' political concerns, while others did look, at the academic side more carefully," Watson says...