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...climaxes to whispering pianissimos. Liszt's Spanish Rhapsody is entirely a display piece; Berman's epic double-octave runs near the end were breathtaking. The choice of Beethoven's crisp, bouncy Sonata No. 18, Op. 31, No. 3, rather than one of the composer's mightier scores, was wise: one does not spout deep philosophy at a fireworks display. Berman's playing of the sonata was immaculate, and not without humor...
...lifting his shirt to reveal a gall bladder scar-in the shape of Viet Nam. Richard Nixon once admitted, "I wouldn't start the morning by looking at Herblock." Even President Ford, gazing forlornly at a gallery of U.S. political cartoons, recently conceded, "The pen is mightier than the politician...
...ever glad Mr. Reasoner and Mrs. Luce pinned your ears back. Indeed your pen is mightier than the sword-and as venomous as a snake...
When Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote that "the pen is mightier than the sword," it's unlikely that he had the fate of the Harvard fencing team in mind. But nevertheless, the Penn that Harvard came up against last weekend was far mightier than any sword the Crimson could raise in resistance and handed Harvard its fourth straight Ivy loss, 15-12, Saturday in Philadelphia...
...Modern Man. It may be just a shade too enthusiastic in its use of exclamation points ("Then he heard a voice!"), and sometimes a bit of color seems to be lost. In Mark's Gospel, when John the Baptist talks about the Messiah as "he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie," Taylor makes the allusion more straightforward: "I am not even worthy to be his slave." In the Book of Daniel, when Nebuchadnezzar makes a gold image and orders people to worship it when they hear...