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Says Conductor Ozawa: "After the war, you could find little grocery stores in the Japanese countryside selling cheap violins side by side with candy bars. The people needed an outlet, and music was the perfect thing." Violins were easier to make than brass or woodwind instruments. Moreover, the stringed instruments were physically ideal for the Orientals: their nimble fingers, so proficient in delicate calligraphy and other crafts, adapted easily to the demands of the fingerboard...
...frustration is only one explanation for the bitter tone of Wednesday's events. Many of those who sat-in merely happened by the scene and found an immediate outlet for their suppressed anger over the war. In fact, many of those punished had never even considered civil disobedience until they were confronted with an easy opportunity--and hard moral choice--after Wednesday's 11 o'clock class...
Many of the prisoners are experts on such subjects as ornithology, linguistics, and mythology, Schamdorff said. This knowledge, often acquired as a hobby, is given a rare outlet in the PBH contest. Last year one prisoner overwhelmed the Harvard team with a display of knowledge of French history and literature...
...surprisingly, fuming smokers are changing their buying patterns. Newsstands and small shops used to be the industry's No. 1 outlet, but now others are taking over the trade. Largely because they offer the best prices in town, supermarkets have increased their share of total cigarette sales in recent years to a commanding 35%. They are now the leading sellers of smokes...
...professors do not need these annual meetings to inform each other about the research in which they are engaged. When I last counted them a few years ago, there were 150 law reviews, most of them hungry for literate copy; the law professor has no difficulty finding a professional outlet for his work. And if he does want to immerse himself in a particular social science so completely as to develop a new career, the non-hierarchical nature of a law school means that no one will make this difficult...