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Thomas is already reaching magisterially for the big sound and carrying both audiences and orchestras with him. But reach does not always equal grasp-in conducting, particularly. With all his gifts, Thomas has a long road ahead. It will take years, as well as accession to the control of a symphony orchestra, for him to set his mark-as a great conductor must-upon a repertory of music and a group of musicians. No one is more willing to learn, however. It is probably lucky for him, and for the Boston Symphony, that he puts himself to sleep at night...
...tackling," Lombardi liked to say. "You block and tackle better than the team you're playing, you win." In the Lombardi canon, malingering was a capital crime and injuries did not exist. "Lombardi time" ran ten minutes ahead of the rest of the world; whoever did not readily grasp this temporal anomaly learned at the cost of $10 per minute. Above all, Lombardi preached pride and mutual esteem, though he never permitted intimacy. Probably the most famous quote from Lombardi's Green Bay epoch came from Tackle Henry Jordan, who said: "He treats us all the same-like...
...getting into an unanticipated revolution. Nobody seems to grasp the degree to which people are fed up." Rhodes' rhetoric notwithstanding, it is up to the whole commission to ascertain who is fed up with whom, and it is still possible that this fall will bring dialogue instead of a dustup...
...Hugh Lane. His ancestors were among the first to settle in the famous fishing port of Gloucester, Mass., where Lane was born in 1804. Partially paralyzed by a childhood illness, he relied on friends to row him out into the harbor where he could sketch and paint, seeking to grasp the precise feeling of the time of day and the weather in New England. An 1848 harbor scene, The Fort and Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, typifies Lane's airy style. The exactitude of his portrayal of the bustling seaport-the clutter of logs, cut boards and barrels surrounding workmen...
...defense of the Soviet nation than the enclave of battleships and guns at Kronstadt. Perched on an island in the Gulf of Fniland 20 miles off Petrograd, it guarded the naval approaches to Russia's largest and former capital city, and its capture could place an enemy within easy grasp of the country's industrial and intellectual center...