Word: glorious
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...democracy, it can’t be through a civics course. No one is going to buy programmed propaganda about democracy after seeing so much raw coverage of the war. Rather, we need to bombard the Middle East with realistic images of our legislative process in all its glorious tedium...
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Taubman's exploration of Khrushchev's complicity in Stalinist horror is probing, subtle. "Like many others," Taubman writes, "Khrushchev thought he was building a new socialist society, a glorious end that justified even the harshest means." So he "practiced deception and self-deception. He never fully owned up to his complicity." Touching a chillingly familiar chord, Taubman explains, "His complicity in great crimes ... was tied to nothing less than his own sense of self-worth, to his growing feeling of dignity, to the invigorating, intoxicating conviction that Stalin, a man he came almost to worship...
...ARTE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA. The Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, led by conductor Gunther Schuller, presents “Glorious Gunther.” Works to be performed include White’s “Five Minatures,” Schubert’s “Rondo for Violin and Orchestra,” Schuller’s “Concerto Da Camera,” and Haydn’s “Symphony No. 46,” featuring Peter Zazofsky on violin. The program includes a free pre-concert apertif at 2:00 p.m., a post...
Besides adding up to a glorious, affecting ambience, every track more than impresses on its own. “KC Accidental” is a barrage of intensive drum and guitar rhythms interspersed with thoughtful violin. “Pacific Theme” brilliantly infuses a simple beach-worthy melody with electronic elements, background voices and perfectly placed percussion. “Shampoo Suicide” is a haunting, writhing mass of noise that intensifies majestically, only to halt after a staggering climax. “Lover’s Spit” soars beautifully to melancholic piano. It also...
...this dramatic and humiliating episode would forever be inscribed in the minds of the young and old--most important in the memories of a generation of frustrated teenagers searching for role models. The hero would be in shackles, untidy, with no turban and certainly no Kalashnikov, stripped of his glorious, rebellious past. His soft voice would be silent; there would be no more calls to arms through al-Jazeera TV or the Internet. His sad eyes would tell a different story; they would convey a message of surrender. The impact on the many who admired him and awaited his televised...