Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brent Auerbach '97 notes in the program, the piece often suggests the 14th-century folk hero Till "thumbing his nose" at the scholastic world and causing general mischief, two activities every Harvard student should have mastered by now. The oftenmuddy winds therefore did no permanent damage to the spirit of the music, and were canceled out (sometimes literally) by especially fine brass. Conductor James Yannatos coaxed playfully nuanced dynamics out of the orchestra and achieved another strong finish...
...what of sports teams? Should a man who claims to have had a gender change of heart the day before the tennis tournament be entitled to play on the women's team? If Harvard, in the spirit of iconoclasm, decides to interfere with the healthy separation which allows athletes of each sex to compete against members of their same sex, would this be acceptable to other NCAA-affiliated universities...
...unlike the situation in India, the public sees few benefits from the impressive modernization in key countries like Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, as unemployment remains stubbornly high and real wages fall. Warned Rubio: "It's a pocketbook issue, and the pocketbook is getting emptier by the day." With the spirit of deregulation on the wane, the region is vulnerable to a renewed outbreak of what Rubio called "the Latin American disease, the tendency of politicians and bureaucrats to micromanage everything...
...passenger of spirit is bound to be insulted by the rituals required for air travel. "Did you pack your own bags?" they demand to know at the ticket counter. Well, who do they think packed them--some courier for Hamas who moonlights as my lady-in-waiting...
...known facts of this matter with a lot of very obvious, very movieish fictions. Some of this was doubtless inevitable. Like the terrible end of the story, its ludicrous beginnings--a trampy white woman falsely accuses an anonymous black man of brutally assaulting her, thereby whipping up a mob spirit in Sumner--is known and powerfully shown. What is not available in the historical records is anything very specific about the people, victims and victimizers alike, who lived this story. Nor, apparently, does it offer a suitably heroic figure on whom to center audience attention or a suspenseful and emotionally...