Word: hammering
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...best performances at Harvard have been of the sacred vocal music of the Renaissance. He has always showed marvelous sensitivity to those flowing vocal lines and fluid rhythms. But he had some real problems in coping with the Mozart Mass. His right-hand-only style of conducting with a hammer-like delivery of each beat led to disconcerting accents on each quarter-note. Mozart's long phrases were broken up as the music chugged along...
...LONG AFTER the Edelin jury heard the last of Judge McGuire's instructions and left the courtroom to seek a verdict, a harried prosecutor New man Flanagan tried once more to hammer out some of the complex issues of the Commonwealth's case. For Flanagan, the trial was over. Instead of jurors he faced a dozen or so reporters, some standing beside the empty benches, some sitting in the jury box itself. But while he waited for the sequestered jury to come in with a verdict the prosecutor continued to wrestle with the reporters' questions about his version of what...
French Neo-Romantic Music of Poulenc, Jaffanel, Barthe, and bert; piano and wind ensemble with Steven Hammer; Kirkland JCR; 8:30; free...
Kirkland House is a good place to be again on Saturday as oboe virtuoso Steven Hammer returns to Harvard, and on Sunday, Adams House gets into the act with the Fine Arts Trio on a performance of Schubert's Bb Piano Trio, one of my favorites...
Most indignant of all were some 350 labor leaders of the AFL-CIO, who met in a Washington summit to hammer out their own economic plan. In a characteristically colorful diatribe, AFL-CIO President George Meany called the President's program "disastrous, the weirdest one I have ever seen." He drew the loudest applause when he attacked the oil-producing Arab nations along with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "Kissinger had a new quotation for the history books: 'Pay.' And pay we did, and we will continue to pay until the U.S. deals with the blackmailers...