Word: outdoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHAT HAPPENS when three of the best musicians at Harvard give a joint performance? They might engage in a battle of the gods, each trying to outdo the others. Or they might do what Lynn Chang. Yo Yo Ma and Richard Kogan did last Saturday night during their performance of Beethoven's Concerto for Violin. Cello, and Piano. The "Triple Concerto" rarely appears on concert programs because of the difficulty of finding three virtuoso musicians willing to share the spotlight. But none of the three Harvard undergrads playing with the Bach Society tried to upstage the others. Instead they played...
...country seem to be bursting with welcome news for the battered U.S. consumer: prices of all sorts of goods and services are coming down, down, down. Inspired by Detroit's generally successful efforts to pull customers back into showrooms, retailers, builders, bankers and manufacturers have been attempting to outdo one another in offering sales, specials, discounts and, above all, their own variations on the carmakers' rebates...
...Coast Guard in Miami responds to the many inquiries about the mysteries of the triangle with a prepared handout that presents a rational explanation of the hazards in the area. "It has been our experience," the Coast Guard says, "that the combined forces of nature and unpredictability of mankind outdo even the most farfetched science fiction many times each year." The handout notes that the triangle is one of two places where magnetic compasses point to true north-and thus may be confusing to navigators who are not used to compass variations...
...pull together the human resources to deal with it." That pleasure was put to the test last week, as Rockefeller withstood the most intense interrogation of his career, covering almost every possible substantive issue and personal idiosyncrasy. Fresh from its impeachment triumph, the committee was plainly determined to outdo its Senate counterpart, the Rules Committee, in dissecting the Rockefeller persona and finding out what makes it tick. Rockefeller, on the other hand, was no less concerned with clearing his name of any hint of scandal or conflict of interest. It was a rigorous confrontation of intellect and ideology in which...
...seems, across the Aegean and the Mediterranean, losing and finally regaining his wife and daughter in the process. Before their reunion, the wife becomes presumably the only matron in a tem ple of vestal virgins, the daughter certainly the only virgin in a brothel - peaks of survival which may outdo even Pericles' own. Shakespeare, the scholars say, wrote only the last three acts, and perhaps ought to be forgiven for them...