Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House has meant to us every- thing we honor in a university: creativity,high academic achievement, independence of spirit,celebration of difference and distaste forpomposity," the Kielys wrote...
...those songs which go out on a limb that actually come close to recapturing or even surpassing the spirit of the originals. The English League's mildly hip-hop influenced version of Oingo Boingo's "Weird Science" is an appropriately goofy take on a goofy song, complete with a melodramatic repetition of "she's alive!," while F.O.N.'s Californianska take on The Cars' "You Might Think" is appropriately trippy. But these are few and far between. Instead, we get mediocre takes on "Pretty in Pink," "I Melt With You" and "If You Leave...
...also the one performed at Beethoven's piano debut on March 29, 1795 in Vienna. Another unique aspect is the size of the orchestra required for a concerto. With the absence of timpani and brass, the orchestra is small indeed. The effect is a composition more in the spirit of the single-emphasis Mozart concerto, even though there are frequent modulations, digressions and development...
...played more conservatively and reserved than expected, but perhaps more in Beethoven's intended spirit. Conservative in the sense that they played it up-tempo, the Sydney Symphony brought the piece closer to what Beethoven probably had planned and closer in sound to Mozart. Reserved in the sense that the orchestra played No. 2 as a concerto and not as a symphony. De Waart's conducting gestures were never forced, were never angularly abrupt. This added to the fact that the muted vibrations of the orchestra and the sweet mellow tone of the piano actually, at times, cast more silence...
...speech, titled "Washington vs. Freedom: Why We Will Win," Hutchinson said excessive taxation and government regulations are dampening the nation's entrepreneurial spirit...