Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think there was an intent to muffle the choice process," he added. "But it's hard to muffle it without giving it up." Gill said that it was his impression that the system had been modified in weeks to pay more attention to students' requests for particular Houses and the Masters' requests for particular students. But he noted that "how substantial substantial has to be" would still clearly affect the degree of choice allowed to freshmen and Masters...
What we need is more "overeducated Oxford s.o.b.s" [Feb. 18] in Congress and fewer "shocking exposes" that are shocking only in their intent to malign...
...several engaging scenes of candid shots as the volunteers teach school, help develop a poultry farm, or assist at a village clinic. The camera fixes on the volunteers' faces as they struggle to communicate the meaning of Gulliver's Travels, then shifts to the faces of the young Indians, intent, curious, and often amused...
Their approach was cautious, logical, austere. Their devotion to classic purity, to the sanctity of the composer's intent, spawned a new school of junior-executive pianists, most of them Americans, noted for their technical brilliance and carbon-copy sameness. Rubinstein, with more regret than scorn, calls them "bank clerks." They practice, practice, practice?and when they go onstage, so remote is their detachment from their audience that they practice some more...
...regal, his face is masked in concentration. His back erect, he kneads his fingers, bows his head for a moment's thought, and then eases into the keyboard. In driving home a run of climactic chords, he rises higher and higher off the piano bench as though he were intent on physically overwhelming the music. In more lyrical moods, his arms and hands move with a kind of gracefully looping symmetry, and always his eyes stare into space. "I like to look up over the piano so I can listen and follow the lines of the piece," he explains. "Looking...