Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem was his inability to perceive the organic emotional continuity of this great work. He missed the miracle of the Scherzo, in which Beethoven keeps an ostinato theme from becoming mechanical, by adopting a slow tempo. There was hardly a touch of gentleness and sway in the priceless slow movement in which every phrase should be continent and compassionate, where lyricism and drama should perfectly intermingle. Yannatos tolerated reticent playing, displayed an at times staggering lapse of taste in phrasing, and generally enervated the performance by failing to grasp the dramatic ethos of Beethoven's universal consciousness...
...Hall. Because the meeting was cancelled so early, the students can be charged with preventing the Faculty from meeting only in a very shaky symbolic sense. At worst they disobeyed an order from Dean Glimp. That is an offense, but a milder and different one than physically blocking the movement of a Dow recruiter. It therefore merits milder, not more severe, punishment than the probation slapped on those who sat in at Malinckrodt--either admonition or no punishment at all. Expelling the demonstrators from the Harvard community (subjecting them immediately to the draft as well) would be entirely...
...basic issue centering around The Confessions of Nat Turner is who shall define the black identity--blacks or whites? Today we are still involved in an Abolitionist movement; however, now we must abolish intellectual and cultural slavery, rather than chattel slavery, and we today meet this challenge with the same knowledge and determination our forefathers expressed in the following quote from an editorial of the Colored American, October...
...humanist" liberals, of course, have many things going in their favor which the McCarthy movement didn't have this year. The key factor is time and commitment born in the anger of the past year's outrages by the regular Democrats. If they can set up an effective national organization, which they appear to be doing, then the money and political expertise which the different state organizations need can be readily provided. With intelligent leaders like Lowenstein, Bond, Michtel Harrington, Adam Walensky, and the Rev. Channing Phillips, the NDC appears to have a wealth of talent unequaled in past American...
What these left liberal Democrats are trying to do, in essence, is to redefine the Democratic "liberal": his policies, programs and comrades-in-arms This political realignment is taking place in the context of a movement for political power. As 1968 proved, it can be a brutal battle...