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...minute symphony, somewhat more linear and contrapuntal in texture than Hanson's earlier compositions, is based almost entirely on a short motif that is stated at the outset like a question. In the first movement, the probing woodwinds turn it over and over with melancholy reflectiveness, then pass it on in the following five movements to mocking, impatient percussion, urgently flowing strings and declamatory brass. In the end, after it has been explored, expanded, inverted and torn apart, the motif is reassembled not as a question but as an answer, and all the various strands of Hanson...
...outset of the third period, Holahan was treated to the sight of three Harvard players coming at him on breakaways within a space of two minutes. All of them scored: Fredo at 0:21 on a pass from Garrity, Fredo again at 1:37 on a three-on-one break, and Mark...
Harvard appropriated a 1-0 lead almost at the game's outset when Kent Parrot took a return pass and beat Tiger goalie Ed Tilghman at 2:38 of the first period...
...Self-Mockery. The day after his announcement, Nixon was in New Hampshire beginning his eighth run for public office in 22 years. He opened a Manchester press conference with some of the disarming self-mockery that has become a trademark recently: "I should make one thing clear at the outset. This is not my last press conference." In 1962, he had counted himself out of politics-and press conferences-with a bitter attack on reporters in California; now he virtually proclaimed Journalism Day. He put the press conference off for two hours because some out-of-state reporters had been...
...decorators and clients alike, the most important part of the entire undertaking is the in-depth interviewing at the very outset. Do the members of the family live formally or informally? Do they favor buffet suppers or sit-down dinners? Do they play bridge? Are they hi-fi buffs? Do they have young children or teenagers? What are their hobbies? Working with a decorator is thus something like going to a psychiatrist, only more expensive: name decorators reckon on spending at least $10,000 for each room and a minimum of $50,000 for an entire house...