Word: singularability
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...high-profile European tour that will take him to historic concert halls in Germany, Sweden, Italy and France. So what makes Dudamel so special? The role of a conductor is at once comprehensible and untranslatable. The task is dauntingly clear: to mold about 100 anarchic artists into his own, singular vision. To do so, he must use only visible cues with musical players necessarily attuned to the aural - a sort of sign language not for the hearing impaired, but the hearing enhanced. Ed Smith, managing director of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, says that what makes Dudamel extraordinary is his ability...
...over the previous half-century that the effect was akin to that of an adrenaline shot on a man whose heart has stopped beating. India would enjoy higher and more sustainable growth rates if it reformed its institutions of governance. Unfortunately, India's universally corrupt political leaders display a singular aversion to undertaking reforms, particularly those of the electoral funding system and the antiquated bureaucracy. Sanjeev Sabhlok, Bulleen, Victoria...
...odds, inspiration is what propelled ceramicist Eva Zeisel out of prison, where she had been confined on false accusations, and into the studio, where she rekindled her creative spirit and challenged the rigid fundamentals of Bauhaus design with her curvaceous household ceramics. At 100, Zeisel is still perpetuating that singular vision...
...academy, he was reading an article about the Supreme Court. He likes to fence. He loves Latin because "it's a very regimented language ... There's probably at least 28 different endings for any given verb, because there's first-, second- and third-person singular and plural for each tense ..." He went on like this for some time. Max didn't get along especially well with classmates in Sydney and later Kent, England, where his mother first moved him in search of an appropriate school--and where she says he was beaten on the playground...
...spent the summer making various small trips, none of which was truly postcard-worthy on its own. Yet, as wide a spread as Los Angeles, New York, and my home base of Boston might be, the kitchens I cooked in seemed an appropriately singular subject for my missive...