Word: particularity
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...opera is inferior to its Italian or German counterpart. Over the past two weekends, the Dunster House Opera sought to correct this under-appreciation of Stravinksy’s work. Though the undertaking was an ambitious choice—the unorthodox rhythmic and harmonic elements of the music are particularly difficult—the company achieved a level of artistry not often seen within the realm of collegiate opera. “The Rake’s Progress” presents a 20th-century adaptation of the Faust legend, which recounts the meteoric rise and fall of the hero...
...meeting last week between Pope Benedict XVI and leaders of the global Jewish community served to ease the tension between the two religions, caused by the Pope’s decision to reinstate four previously excommunicated bishops back into the Roman Catholic Church. In particular, the reinstatement of Bishop Richard Williamson has outraged Jewish leaders, who point to his public skepticism of the Holocaust as evidence of anti-Semitism. Many have called for the Pope to re-excommunicate Williamson from the church. While the Pope’s efforts to meet with Jewish leaders in order to explain his decision...
...trouble with policy wonks is that they solve yesterday’s problems. Though policymakers should learn from their experience, they warp their judgment by learning too much from the particular crises they handled when they were last in office. As a result, they often ignore criticism in their attempt to prevent previous plights from recurring. And, when everyone in the room has the same nightmare, each in his lookout watches the same bogeyman...
...contrary. Email and BlackBerrys have their own particular character of communication, which I think is very different from the interior dialogue that one conducts in the pages of a diary, or the written conversation to which one contributes when writing a letter. The culture being what it is, people don't write letters today, people don't keep diaries today. As late as Ronald Reagan, some presidents maintained a virtual diary of their presidency, which is an invaluable document to get inside their head. Those don't exist for the years since...
...years after I bought the Strad I could hear Jackie's [artistic] voice when I played, especially when I played Elgar. Perhaps all the hours she spent working on projecting a certain coloring and style minutely warped and changed the wood so that it more readily put forth her particular style. I don't know. But I'm sure of this: her musical presence remained in that instrument...