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Solid training is a key to the Latin influx. In contrast to the U.S., where training is haphazard except at a few top companies, many Latin countries have excellent ballet schools, often subsidized by the government, where youngsters are put through a rigorous classical regimen. Spain boasts a fine school run by former Maurice Béjart dancer Víctor Ullate. Argentina has another, at the century-old Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. But the most celebrated and influential school in the Latin world is the one attached to Cuba's National Ballet, supported by Castro since 1959 and presided...
...current suspension of search activity is a result either of a failure at U Hall to have something like a five year plan, or a disinclination to let dept. chairs know what [the plan] is,†the Sept. 15 minutes read. “The haphazard way in which this decision was reported to the chairs did not get an adequate response at the retreat, and the lack of an explanation of what the near future may bring makes it difficult if not impossible for chairs to plan for their own curricular needs...
...crew rationed water. The pirates ate well, though, bringing goats, potatoes, tomatoes and onions from the mainland and cooking WFP rice. Every four or five days a fresh group of pirates would arrive to relieve their colleagues. On board, they passed the time cleaning their weapons, marching in haphazard formation on the deck, and chewing miraa, a mildly narcotic leaf popular in Somalia. They shot at any boats that came too close. One day an associate came from the mainland with a note that said, "the Somali Navy has captured your vessel...
...Bush's White House is a conundrum, a bastion of telegenic idealism and deep cynicism. The President has proposed vast, transformational policies-the remaking of the Middle East, of Social Security, of the federal bureaucracy. But he has done so in a haphazard way, with little attention to detail or consequences. There are grand pronouncements and, yes, crusades, punctuated with marching words like evil and moral and freedom. Beneath, though, is the cynical assumption that the public doesn't care about the details-that results don't matter, corners can be cut and special favors bestowed...
...every time you think you hear a conventional pattern of voice-leading in his accompaniment, he abandons it and plays a perfectly timed major seventh at the top of the piano and throws you off balance. This is not to say that Monk’s playing is haphazard or cacophonous. Rather, it has its own unique beauty that cannot be reduced to a series of dehumanized chord progressions and riffs...