Word: environmentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Philadelphia Orchestra. During their 44 years under Conductor Eugene Ormandy, the Philadelphians became known for their exceptionally rich string tone, at least partly produced by compensating for the dry acoustics in their home, the Academy of Music; curiously, the "Philadelphia sound" could not be fully appreciated in Philadelphia, but...
An acoustically sympathetic environment is almost as important. Although a good hall cannot make an orchestra sound better than it really is, it can allow it to reach its potential unhindered. San Francisco's artistic emergence has been closely related to its 1980 move from the dry War Memorial...
In tacit recognition of the incompatibility of their work with a university environment, they have established a private organization--the International Foundation for Internal Freedom. Leary has already left the University to devote his full energies to the group, and Alpert had also planned to spend much of his time...
"It's mostly flowers and things like that," he explains. After living in a barren environment like Antarctica for a year, where there is absolutely nothing alive it really hits you in the face."
In fact, both Iran and Iraq have reasons for exacerbating the disaster. Iraq hopes that a delay will increase the pressure on Arab countries to call for a broader cease-fire in the war that Iraq started in 1980 and that it is now eager to end. Iran, on the...