Word: exits
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Brahms' First Symphony concluded the program. This composer was not always so beloved in town--in the 1890s, it was proposed that a sign above the rear of Symphony Hall should read "exit in case of Brahms." No one ran for the door, however, as Haitink masterfully mustered a grandiose yet precise reading. At the risk of iconoclasm, his technique is much clear and less irksome than Uncle Seiji's. To be fair, however, the first movement lost focus en route to the slinky final recapitulation...
...Brahms' First Symphony concluded the program. This composer was not always so beloved in town--in the 1890s, it was proposed that a sign above the rear of Symphony Hall should read "exit in case of Brahms." No one ran for the door, however, as Haitink masterfully mustered a grandiose yet precise reading. At the risk of iconoclasm, his technique is much clearer and less irksome than Uncle Seiji's. To be fair, however, the first movement lost focus en route to the slinky final recapitulation...
...show, the audience was reluctant to let the band go. Their exit was accompanied by wild applause and screaming until they were wooed back onto stage. Both encore pieces were from Bring It On, concluding with the whimsical "Whippin' Piccadilly," a tribute to drug day ambling around their native...
...also teach in my tutorial, when the cost of a policy is borne by those who hold no decision-making power, and they can't credibly threaten to exit (transferring to Yale), the policy usually goes uncorrected. I'm afraid this may be the case here...
Senator Joseph Biden, who helped Clinton craft his approach to Kosovo, explains that Powell had become "a paralysis doctrine." Military operations today have to be conducted in murky regions like the Balkans, where there are no precise exit strategies. Presidents, said Biden, have to be able to use force not knowing exactly what the outcome or consequences may be. "That's the nature of the world today," Biden told Clinton...