Word: musters
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...oratory and revel in elections, they are not very good at issuing a mandate. Last week's election was no exception. In the voting for 151 parliamentary seats, Madame's Freedom Party took a bad beating. Though carrying her own constituency, she and her Marxist allies could muster only 55 seats. Dudley Senanayake's U.N.P. captured 66 seats, an impressive advance but still not enough to form either a majority or a government...
What are the slogans of a movement that tries to extract the truth from both the liberal and radical positions? What does one reply to the crowd of students that the May 2nd Movement can muster, that march down Massachusetts Avenue chanting "Stop the War in Vietnam, Bring the Troops Home"? "Neither May 2nd nor McGeorge Bundy" is the sentiment of the synthesis. But that does not make a very good slogan. A sound American foreign policy involves, as Stanley Hoffmann has said in a different context, "treading between the abysses." That means supporting radical social reform while opposing subservience...
When Mozart wrote a single melody line for the piano, with the barest of oom-pahs for orchestral accompaniment, he was calling for every ounce of expression the pianist could muster, and exposing it to the audience. Levin rose to the challenge, with an admirable blend of feeling and control. Mozart is not as sure fire as Telemann, and it kept the orchestra on its toes. The celli were lithe and interesting on a part that can't have been intrinsically fascinating...
...production at the Hotel Bostonian does not muster enough reserve to pull off the play's melodramatic interludes. If the actors performed in a more genteel, more Victorian key, they might be able to speak Ibsen's moody lines more comfortably. Their aggressive, coloquial style tends to rinse away the realism which Ibsen wanted to achieve...
Playing in the U.S. Squash Racquets Association Championships at Hartford Saturday, Harvard could muster only a single victory in the individual and team competition. In the individuals, Romer Holleran had trouble starting against former Cornell star Craig Fanning, falling behind 2-0 in games. The Crimson captain rallied to even the match, but then dropped the fifth game...