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...Mozart or Bach here. First, you have to pick a piece that you know enough about to make a plausible reconstruction of the first performance. For a Bach cantata, you may not know enough about how it worked or when it first was performed. These five pieces also span a broad history of music. We go from the very late Renaissance to 20th-century music. For a person who only studies music in a limited manner, this book may provide guideposts. Furthermore, these are all large-scale pieces. A whole society has to get involved in these performances. People have...
...Gore stuffed his five minutes with words like he'd stuffed his hour at the convention closer in L.A.; the tradeoff was a nice lack of condescension. This might have been the new most important speech of his political career, and since the whole point was the attention span of the American people, he wasn't about to tax it much...
...When spread out over the hundred year life span of the building, a few million dollars is a reasonable price to pay for doing the right thing," he says...
There are very few permanent rivalries; most are temporary and span anywhere from a few years to a few decades. Such a rivalry stems purely from competitiveness between two teams. When two teams match up well against each other and animosity develops between them, a temporary rivalry is formed. This explains temporary rivalries such as Celtics-Lakers, Bruins-Canadians, and--of course--Crimson-Bull Dogs (notice all rivalries are listed good guys-bad guys). All of these rivalries were created by the competitive nature of specific athletes who disliked their opponents-athletes who have long since retired...
...Bartholomew, who recorded 158 yards on 32 rushes, led the Bulldog offense. Lee provided the scoring for Yale, passing for three touchdowns and rushing for another in a span of 20 minutes, while amassing 197 yards through...