Word: ets
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Once a dedicated foe of the French cultural establishment, Boulez has become his country's unofficial musical czar. Such is his clout that the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique commands a disproportionate share of the money that the French government spends on music. Boulez has influenced the design of the flexibly configured concert hall at the Cite de la Musique, La Villette, which will become the new site of the Paris Conservatory of Music in 1989. He is also vice president of the board of the new Opera Bastille, which will become the home of the Paris Opera...
After a number of disturbing claims by Haitians claiming to be zombies, the Centre de Psychiatrie et Neurologie in Port au Prince, Haiti had requested help from ethnobiologists in the United States...
After all, most of the major architects of the Vietnam War were Harvard men (McGeorge Bundy, Robert McNamara, et. al), while the driving forces behind Reagan's Rambo-style foreign policy carry the Crimson banner with pride, among them Cap Weinberger and Richard Pipes...
...performed by the Philadelphians and Soloist Gregory Fulkerson. Finally, Dvorak's undeservedly neglected Fifth Symphony received a taut performance that, among other virtues, was notable for the breathtaking precision of the strings. Two days later in Philadelphia, Muti took an Apollonian view of Berlioz's sprawling "dramatic symphony," Romeo et Juliette, featuring Soprano Jessye Norman and Bass-Baritone Simon Estes. For all its splendor, however, the performance could have used more intensity and less Gallic detachment...
Extremism in the defense of liberty may be no vice, as an old politician once said, but Jerry Williams et. al. carry the concept of liberty to an insupportable extreme...