Word: inspirationa
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...speech -- if one deleted the Murphy Brown passage -- was a reasonably persuasive and sometimes eloquent sampler: a punitive-inspirationa l hymn to hard work, family, integrity and personal responsibility. Some people later took Quayle's words to be fatuous white-bread truisms -- Norman Rockwell evocations of an America long gone. But if the ideas could be considered outside the inflammatory political and racial context of the moment, they had a ring of common sense. A number of black leaders, including Jesse Jackson, might have made the same points without controversy -- and have. The family, ^ Quayle said, is important...
...would have to be: I) for full orchestra, 2) of not more than ten minutes' duration, 3) tranquil. Benjamin's further explanation: "Hundreds of thousands of Americans bring work home at night. Tranquil music is the kind that can be listened to as one works-with perhaps inspirationa results."* In New Orleans last week, after a board of judges had weeded through 72 entries. Conductor Alexander Hilsberg led his Philharmonic-Symphony in the prizewinning score...
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