Word: mindedness
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"It is enormously to Alan Heimert's credit that instead of being an imperial, colonial-minded American by interfering in our politics, he consulted with Black and white South Africans about what Harvard can do," says Moulder, who arranged Heimert's meetings in Cape Town.
Boulez's music, derived from the twelve-tone system of Arnold Schoenberg, is devoid of conventional melodies and harmonies. Instead it is made up of bursts of tones that are combined into seemingly cacophonous passages, which tax both the ear and the mind. It can sound dense and abstruse at...
Shcharansky says he was determined not to let this happen and spent long hours trying to keep his moral balance. He remembers creating the kind of unity among prisoners that he once strived for among Soviet dissidents. "The Soviet authorities hate any kind of solidarity among independent-minded people," he...
THE REAGAN Administration's insistence on military intervention in Nicaragua is leading to disaster. The administration's stated aim is to topple the Nicaraguan government, but in the single-minded pursuit of that goal the U.S. government is ignoring opportunities for a peaceful resolution of the tensions in Central America...
Practical-minded modern Americans have been contemptuous of follies, those curious buildings meant only to charm and delight. But recent architectural fashion has been tending toward the fey, even the frivolous. This winter in the American heartland, form follows fantasy completely: in St. Paul and Galveston, Texas, local volunteers have...