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Kirchner conducted the three cantatas with his peculiar blend of romanticism and objectivity. His own music displays a predilection for big chords and thick, lush sonorities, and this love of sound for its own sake carried over into his interpretation of the Bach. Kirchner demanded a full-bodied sound from his small ensemble. Occasionally his insistence backfired, as in the final chorus of "ewiges Feuer" (BWV 34) where the sopranos had to force and went noticably sharp. Most of the choruses were full of dramatic dynamic contrasts, crescendi and decrescendi. And Kirchner had no qualms about taking expressive liberties with...
This man's view is shared by an ever increasing number of undergraduates: Pusey gets angry--and he was very angry at the Dow demonstration--only when his own peculiar sense of social order is upset. Football riots, a common enough occurrence during the President's undergraduate career, do not upset this order, and would never be belabored in an annual report. Impolite demonstrations against large corporations...
...course, it is possible to argue that the population which eats in the dining halls is a very peculiar sample. For this reason we contacted students in Dudley House who do not usually eat in the Houses. In order to avoid over-representing Dudley, we set the average number of seniors who answered from each House as the target number of Dudley House students to be contacted...
...eventful century to be exceptional in. The hundred years witnessed the French Revolution, the comet streak of Napoleon, the expanding British Empire abroad, the Industrial Revolution at home. In art, the era was marked by the emergence of Romanticism, that peculiar cult of the divine in nature, the grotesque, the bizarre, the irrational and the emotional...
Dahomey, the birthplace of voodoo, undergoes a peculiar seasonal ritual. Ever since it gained independence from France in 1960, the tiny country of 2,300,000 people has regularly tossed out its government during the pre-Christmas season in odd-numbered years. Usually, the man who has served as chief bouncer is a general named Christophe Soglo, 58. Last week, right on schedule, Dahomey had its fourth coup in seven years. This time, it was a total surprise to Soglo, who was himself thrown out as President by a junta of his younger army subordinates...