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Minsky’s book is laid out with each chapter addressing a different concept. The book is difficult to summarize holistically, because Minsky’s style presents what famed philosopher Douglas R. Hofstadter has called “a stunning collage of staccato images.” Indeed, the chapters, and even the subunits of the chapters, seem to be able to stand alone, almost as in a textbook...
...closing, I’d like thank all who have had the luck and joy of befriending Hui, who have enjoyed his cheerful spirit and his staccato eloquence, who have been struck by his sharpness of mind and charmed by his jocosity of humor, and who will forever help keep him around by dedicating a special place of our heart to his remembrance...
Maxime LeBleu was nibbling on a lunch of Japanese rice and vegetables with classmate Eugene Lu outside Dawson College's downtown Montreal campus yesterday, when the pair heard an odd rapid staccato popping...
...Compact and wiry, Moulitsas, 34, exudes quivering intensity. He speaks in staccato paragraphs, punctuated by intense stares and a raised eyebrow. His eyes bulge slightly outward, as if reacting to the pressure of all the ideas inside his head. Many of those ideas find a home on Daily Kos. A clearinghouse for liberal screeds and progressive perspective on the news, the site claims to get more than 500,000 unique visitors daily, and more than 10,000 members maintain their own sub-blogs (called "diaries") within its reaches. On Thursday, almost a thousand of these loyal readers and contributors - along...
...principal violist Johann F. Cutiongco ’06 for his dedication and leadership to the orchestra.The symphony itself was perhaps the orchestra’s finest moment as a unified musical ensemble, at times wailing with ominous darkness and at others lilting on tentative happiness. A stunning staccato passage in the third movement gave way to the bombastic power and arched backs of the performers in the fourth. The woodwinds shone throughout the piece, playing runs and falls that jumped across the strings’ solid foundation.At the end of the concert, Yannatos and Finne were able to look...