Word: excepts
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...performance. Levinson's lines seemed to come from a different world as they mingled with Buswell's wide vibrato. The music couldn't help but acquire a very private quality, hardly the kind that reaches out to an audience; the listeners could not readily participate in the experience, except by observing. Many became restless during and especially after the movement, but Buswell quieted them with a nod to Levinson, whose crashing entrance gave an almost attacca start to the last movement...
Until then, what can a student do? Well, not much, except to hope that you're not the victim who finally makes Harvard wake...
From Tadros's description, one would think that the War of Independence was the victory of a powerful Israeli army over a helpless civilian population. It was not. The moment Israel's independence was announced, the surrounding countries immediately attacked. All of them, except Egypt, remained in a permanent state of war with Israel until the 1990s. The miracle of independence is at once the miracle of survival...
During the first few months of 1949, direct negotiations were conducted under U.N. auspices between Israel and each of the invading countries (except Iraq, which refused to negotiate with Israel), resulting in armistice agreements that reflected the situation at the end of the fighting. Accordingly, the coastal plain, Galilee and the entire Negev came within Israel's sovereignty. The Gaza Strip came under Egyptian administration, and the West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem came under Jordanian rule. These were subsequently annexed to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which never thought it necessary to establish an independent Palestinian state in the newly...
...cast, a virtual ensemble of HRDC members, is capable of greater productions than this. Ill-fated by the script at its outset, The Living plunders a previous era for answers and comes up empty-handed except for a contrived ending metaphor. As Graunt puts in in his closing speech, "What Newton found [on vacation during the plague]: the world would fly to pieces, but for a great force, a power in every single body in the world, which pulls it ceaselessly toward every other body." Unfortunately, not even Newtonian physics can hold the play together...