Word: originality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seer-sucker, ladies and gentlemen slender and adept: they learn to be the managers of their own self-introspection and self-accusation. Should they become intolerably disturbed, someone in the Mental Health Department of the pre-paid medical plan will tell them that their guilt is of neurotic origin and ought not be given opportunity to distress them. Guilt, in any case, they will be told, is not "productive." Skull of infant, blood and bone, the desperation of young mothers in the back-street clinic of the Boston slums: it does not go with sherbet and seersucker...
...Death at an Early Age and Free Schools. He aims at radical reform of the school system, particularly in libraries and history departments, and support of alternative schools. He advocates an educational census to determine the number of bilingual and crippled children and illiterate adults of non-English speaking origin to establish programs suited to their needs...
...never told why Hart wants so much to succeed, since Bridges does not portray the origin or meaning of his ambition. His last, too easy gesture of mocking his achievement thus looks not only frivolous and empty-headed but contemptuous. It means that the students brought themselves to the edge of hysteria for nothing, that one tried to kill himself for nothing, that we were manipulated into caring about it all for nothing...
Black Britons are also beginning to bridge the gap between themselves and Britain's other "coloreds"--the English catchall term applied to blacks of West Indian or African origin, Asians, and even Britons of Cypriot ancestry. Like blacks, Britain's other "coloreds" face substantial discrimination. Asian immigrants live in scandalously poor conditions, and if they are found to have entered Britain illegally, they are sometimes repatriated immediately without their families even being notified...
...proved it throughout the piece. From the opening ritornello, introducing all the themes, he provided the orchestra with terrific energy which did not lapse in the entire first movement (the longest Beethoven ever wrote). The recapitulation was a great moment of artistry--both pianist, conductor, and orchestra demonstrating the origin of the word "concerto" in the Italian "to strive with". Each section of the orchestra was at its best at the end of the first movement...