Word: onslaughts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That quiet Sunday television interlude before the onslaught of football, a time given over to the earnest sobriety of Washington interviews with public figures, has been broken at last. In place of ABC's Issues and Answers, there now looms the hour-long This Week with David Brinkley, the creation of ABC's Roone Arledge, who also invented Monday Night Football. After a wobbly start, the Brinkley show looks like a true innovation in television journalism. In its eerie interview by satellite with Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and then in its commentary afterward-which matched Gaddafi word...
...doctrinaire serialism. For all his radical leftist politics, Henze's own music is on the musical right. In a way, he is the Brahms of his day, writing in forms such as symphony, concerto and oratorio, preserving the traditional structures in the ace of the avant-gardist onslaught. Henze has mixed idioms freely throughout his career: harshly dissonant modernism, soaring lyricism and frankly tonal conservatism. But the glue that holds his work together is its humanism. Henze's music is meant to be played and listened to by people, not computers. With serialism now in some disrepute...
...from brains and both still functioning, for instance--as well as a perturbing exploration of whether computers can really think for themselves. Man's view of himself was always tended to lab behind technological change. Perhaps for once, we ought to reevaluate ourselves a little early, before a possible onslaught of disembodied brains...
...onslaught began when center Tania Huber banged home a centering pass from winger Dainne Hurley less than a minute into the game...
Despite the offense's difficulties, the Harvard defense hung tough against an onslaught of Dartmouth attackers. Lamont had five saves on the day and Mullen had key interceptions in front of the net which kept the Big Green from taking even more shots...