Word: resistance
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According to Balliett, the problem does not rest exclusively on the shoulders of the disinterested audience—classical musicians who resist modernization should share the blame. Traditionalists have stigmatized modern orchestral music, he says, leaving only a limited canon of work that classical groups can choose from...
Some department administrators, however, resist this idea...
...tried to celebrate the last of the upper-echelon hurlers, even as their ranks thinned year by year and the masses around me drank the Kool-Aid and succumbed to the seduction of the home run. But ultimately, it proved fruitless to resist the well-laid plans of the ash-wielding tyrants. Their largest offensive—launched in that fateful summer of ’98—proved too strong for any resistance, and the entire nation became entranced by the hypnotic potion of ball after ball flying out of the shrunken cathedrals. By the time the final...
...whose most successful works in that period were counterculture icons like Bonnie and Clyde and Little Big Man, is not about to be nostalgic about his former competition. Target is a deadpan satire on the old cloak-and-dagger conventions almost to the end, at which point Penn cannot resist staging with self-conscious luridness a scene in which Walter must deal with a particularly sadistic bomb threat...
...Officers observed two men graffiti tagging the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) building with spray-paint. Upon being spotted, the perpetrators attempted to flee the scene and the officers gave chase. The perpetrators were caught, attempted to resist arrest but ultimately, were subdued. John A. Cobblah, 20, of Maynard, Mass. and Daniel Gursha, 19, of Haven, Mass. were then placed under arrest for tagging property, resisting arrest, and carrying a dangerous weapon...