Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approach to the orchestra is that every musician is talented and a master of his instrument. Otherwise he would not be a member of the orchestra, Munch reasons. Consequently he seldom corrects individuals in rehearsals, and though he is careful of details, he does not pick out one particular player for picayune criticism. Only when he strongly disagrees with a man's particular interpretation will he stop a rehearsal to correct him. Thus, although he spends as much time in rehearsal as other conductors, less of this time is spent in repetition of short phrases. Munch's approach worked extraordinarily...
Harvard has joined with Yale and six other universities in a cooperative endeavor to speed up research in the social sciences by maintaining joint files so that researchers may learn the latest developments in their particular areas...
Colston E. Warne, professor of economics at Amherst, spent a good part of his time discussing Poland in particular as he attacked the economic problems in U.S.-Russian relations. Claiming that Europe in general doesn't appreciate the United States, he singled out Poland as a bright spot on the western European scene--a nation not yet completely...
...minutes, and then abruptly lifted out again--terse dialogue and quick images. The people in the stories are finely brushed-in, and Miss Jackson knows how to use children to mirror the inadequacies of her adults. But these features are neither necessarily good in themselves nor Miss Jackson's particular property (though she works very well with them.) It is the title story, far from her usual pattern, which makes "The Lottery" an exceptional book...
This proposal is fine as far as it goes. But the Faculty should not wait the full three years before it considers broadening the plan. There is no reason why concentrators in the other Humanities and the Social Sciences should be excluded from foreign study if they have some particular interest in going to Europe and if suitable courses are available abroad...