Word: peak
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...Students are at the peak of their idealism," he said. "They are dangerous to the establishment...
Jarrett's tour this month across the U.S. finds the once and future enfant terrible at the top of his form and, perhaps, the peak of his career. In addition to performing live concerts in seven cities, Jarrett, 50, is simultaneously releasing a six-CD set, Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note, featuring his trio's nuanced performances of jazz standards. His "classical" repertoire, moreover, encompasses music from Bach to Bartok; last summer he performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Boston Symphony, and he has just released a disc of suites for keyboard by Handel. Always a difficult composer...
...TIME team, coordinated by correspondent Jeanne McDowell, set up shop at the Inter-Continental Hotel, just above the rooms that had served for nine months as the secret home of the Simpson jurors. Competition among the press, fierce all along, reached a peak as TV and tabloid reporters offered tens of thousands of dollars for exclusives. TIME, like most serious news publications, does not pay for interviews. Our reporters had to pursue the story, as deputy chief of correspondents Jan Simpson puts it, "the old-fashioned way: by getting to the right sources...
...would say at any given time about 200 of the seats [in the Union] are empty," said Ali Ahsan '99. But "during peak hours, you might have that problem...
...think that absolutely no inter-house is sort of extreme," said Carlos D. Bustamante '97. "I understand the need to limit the number during peak hours, like Adams [House] and Quincy [House], but I think they should have a policy much like those houses, that people should be allowed to go in between 12:30 and 1, or 1:30 and 2. I think we could come to an agreement that would be amenable...