Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grieg's E-minor sonata is the set's only other piece in the standard repertoire. (In his liner notes reprinted from the original 1973 release Gould, with typical humor, claims that his rendition of the sonata should be considered as definitive because his maternal grandmother was Grieg's cousin.) The same can be said of Gould's performance of the Grieg sonata as of the Brahms' Intermezzi: he emphasizes inner (detractors would say "extraneous") voices, and takes unusually slow tempos. Still, taken on its own terms, the sonata is musically coherent and surprisingly lyrical, especially the Andante Molto second...
...rumpled dresser with a former athlete's disdain for exercise as well as a fondness for junk food that has doubled his chin, Bradley is not particularly telegenic. Although he has a wry sense of humor, he is too deliberate to be glib. But Bradley, who actually writes his own speeches, is trying to become less wooden. "You improve the more you speak," he says. "If you think I'm bad now, you should have seen me at the beginning. I'm up from zero." Having mastered what he calls his "inside game"--a thorough command of detail--he says...
...school contemporaries predict that Scalia's intelligence and sense of humor will endear him to the other Justices. "His brethren on the Supreme Court will absolutely love him," states John D. French, the Law Review president when Scalia worked on it. "Agree with him or not, he is an absolute joy to be with...
...suggesting, winnowing and eventually reporting the stories. Says ! Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, the smiling fellow pictured with a flag in his breast pocket, who was in charge of the issue: "We wanted a celebration, but a clear-eyed one, keeping our problems in view and retaining a sense of humor about our foibles." He adds, "This very undertaking is characteristically American. It is the journalistic equivalent of an old- fashioned holiday parade. We're strutting a bit and having moments of reflection and exhorting ourselves to do better as well...
Professors are not the only ones noted for their peculiar sense of humor. During the school's annual Ditch Day, seniors secure their rooms with a variety of fiendishly clever locks and barriers, then leave campus and challenge the wimps (underclassmen) to get in. This year one room was guarded by a computer that had to be addressed in several languages before the door could be opened. "I guess it sounds like a strange way to have fun," says Ky-Anh Phan, 19, a sophomore from San Jose, "but building strange things is what this place is all about...