Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kirkland Stein Club Strauss R&P Society Non-honors candidate Candidate Solid Group IV Roommate won Bermuda Shot...
...able to recruit another generation capable of replacing him, Sands. Mike Terner and Warren Grossman after they graduate in 1983. The "B" team, mean-while, gives Usher a chance to work with rookies who can't come close to the varsity now, but who may someday produce a solid record, if not an Ivy title...
...philosophize or use high-level technical terminology, the book loses its punch. His statistical sections demand too much from a popular audience and bog down the narrative, especially in his discourses on linear algebra. When he sticks to careful analysis of the I.Q. examiners, he is on much more solid ground...
Everyone else is out chopping down the forest, Bunyans, nay Weyerhauesers. But White is standing still and looking at the trees, separating the solid lumber from the rotted. And from a single tree he can find the whole wood--almost the reverse of the more common sort of writing, which takes the world and boils it down into a single character. It is skill--not passion, not energy, not vision--that carries White; for anyone without the skill, his method of approaching big ideas is impossible. He is a singles hitter, but his average is high...
...lavishes some of his most beautiful music on it, including an exquisite canonic quintet in the second act, and, more noteworthy, an extended instrumental section at the end that wordlessly depicts the parting of the Red Sea and the Pharaoh's despair. The Philadelphia production has a solid cast, though Bass Jerome Hines, looking suitably Hestonian as Mosès, no longer has the weight of tone to allow him to sing the part with authority...