Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performed under Boulez's direction last week, it is the most impressive piece yet to emerge from the hitherto uneasy marriage of music and technology. A formidable technical achievement, it is also a work that makes a direct appeal to the emotions, the sign of a masterpiece...
...night about politics!--and Bryant's dazed awe. And later, in Russia, when Reed finds himself on a platform exhorting the Communists to strike and promising the support of the American workers, the climax of the scene is not the workers' cheering, but the proud, loving gaze of the hitherto frigid Louise. "She'll sleep with him now," we think, and sure enough, Beatty cuts to coitus in silhouette, Keaton...
...relations with old business associates despite the sensitivity of his position in the White House. But at least the President's embattled National Security Adviser cannot be accused of giving up without a fight. After his surprise announcement that he was taking an "administrative leave" (with pay), the hitherto reticent Allen faced any and all questions of reporters in an extraordinary media blitz (see PRESS...
...bottle bill. King could have helped all of Massachusetts. As any visitor to Harvard Square will tell you, bottles and cans greatly contribute to urban litter. And in rural areas, too, unwelcome bottles put a blight on nature and upset ecology. The bill would not only prevent many a hitherto callous bottle-tosser from strewing the streets with refuse, it would also give passersby an incentive to pick up the discarded containers. And, as the economists would say, the resulting cleanliness represents an externality--a cost or benefit to society not reflected in the market price. By charging a nickel...
Gossip has always been one of the evil pleasures. It is unworthy, nosy, hypocritical and moralistic, a sort of participatory nastiness. But does it play a heroic moral role hitherto unnoticed? Is gossip merely a swamp that breeds mosquitoes and disease? ("Each man walks with his head in a cloud of poisonous flies," wrote Tennyson.) Or does it have higher functions in the ecosystem...