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...registered Democrat who describes himelf as conservative on social issues and "pretty left on most foreign policy" and economic issues, Gallagher explains that Silber's willingness to bring up issues that no other politician would touch attracted him to the Boston University president. Only Silber would bring "some fresh thinking about the most closely-held ideas the Democrats have held since the 1960s. Unfortunately he tended to express them in a blunt, sometimes offensive...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Speaking Loudly and Carrying a Big Stick | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...Paris, the piano in his family's apartment was kept locked. His father, an engineer, did not want him to become a composer. Though Varèse went on to study music at some of the world's best schools and eventually made a name for himelf as a fierce and formidable modernist composer, there are those who believe that his father's wish was fulfilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer Jean Sibelius, Nature Boy at 90 | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...normal student the idea of drilling at 7.30 is not alluring; he does it because it is the only possible time he can spare and because he wants to do something to prepare himelf for future service. Yet yesterday and the day before showed that to drill without over-coats when the thermometer refuses to register is not too instructive and extremely uncomfortable. It is difficult to drill when all feelings except those of distinct pain have left the fingers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTER DRILL | 11/28/1917 | See Source »

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