Word: imperiale
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Committing the sounds of music to paper is like trying to bottle a moon beam. It is an elusive and often per- plexing art. The mechanics of inscribing notations, for one thing, is such a tedious and time-consuming task that for centuries composers and musicians have been searching for...
> An already punishing gasoline tax was increased by sixpence (70), thus raising the cost of one "Imperial gallon" (a fifth again as capacious as its U.S. equivalent) to 750.
To achieve this will not be easy. Japan has many clients in Asia but few friends. Their fellow Asians consider the Japanese a strange hybrid of Oriental past and technological present. Despite Japan's impeccable-indeed, almost mouselike-postwar behavior, its very forward stride manages to recall to some...
At this point, Professor Labaree contends, colonial resentment of domineering imperial policies might have wilted and died. The crisis revived only when Parliament resolved to dump the tea of the ailing East India Company on colonial markets. Seizing on this pretext, a minority of determined patriots rekindled the excitement of...
Balanchine does not like to see a dancer transform his choreography into a vehicle for her own virtuosity. "You have to watch out," says one member of the troupe. "If you get too good at a role, you'll lose it." He discourages the star system by refusing to...