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The third movement began with a well-crafted call-and-response between the strings and the piano. Cohen and Wiley did well to keep the gestures simple; their two-part counterpoint maintained greatness through its simplicity. Pressler's response was more richly done but still appropriate, and Cohen's relaxation...
Even so, Attinger most often uses the word great to describe New York. "Its greatness comes from its diversity, its excitement, its extremes," she says. "Millions of people with immense social, racial and cultural differences are living together -- and in collision. It's a long-running experiment."
THE artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosphical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it in this way: "Some people...
The ceremony to dedicate the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace was a strange conjuration of the past, subdued and defiant at the same time, like the man himself: an assertion of greatness, a denial of disgrace. Watergate sat inconspicuously in the audience (H.R. Haldeman, Ron Ziegler, Rose Mary Woods, among...
The problems listed above are but a few, but nonetheless are glaringly missed when conversations of a nation's greatness is contemplated. How can people, including Mr. Nye, talk or even worry about the prospect of the Germans or the Japanese overtaking us as world leaders when the problems of...