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Though better known in Harvard’s music community as a performer, Adams’ focus in the classroom was on composition. He studied under Leon Kirchner, but rebelled against the academic model of composition that dominated Harvard’s music department—atonality and the twelve-tone method of Schoenberg...
...danger of rebuilding on the ground at Ground Zero is to forget that it is not ground. As Leon Wieseltier describes it, “There was no soil in this place. What they were moving was the substance that was formed out of the dissolution of everything and everybody that had been crushed and incinerated: a deathloam.” Creating a beautiful, used, lived-in building over Ground Zero is more than a physical erasure of the tragedy, it is an erasure of our public memory. It veneers over death. It treats the “deathloam?...
Louisiana Tech coach Leon Barmore comes over to the bench and says, “Beverly, are you ready...
...have direct talks with the North Koreans; there's no question about it." Days later, however, Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared to contradict him, saying "no military option's been taken off the table, although we have no intention of attacking North Korea as a nation." Korea analyst Leon Sigal, whose book Disarming Strangers chronicles the first nuclear crisis, says U.S. intransigence and North Korea's belligerence equal "a very dangerous spiral...
...said without hesitation about Leonardo. The first is that he was not a "Renaissance man." He did not typify his time. Many artists in the Renaissance worked, as Leonardo did, in a wide variety of media: drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture and so forth. None, however, not even the great Leon Battista Alberti, had Leonardo's astounding and insatiable curiosity about the makeup and governing laws of the physical world or spent so much time and energy speculating about them...