Word: static
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cantata, symphony, and opera splits into three long movements. There are a few dull passages, but most of its 120 minutes brim over with intense emotion. After an orchestral introduction, a choral recitative marks out the plot, and the first movement ends with what seems to be a rather static version of the famous balcony scene. The second movement has the familiar "Queen Maud Scherzo" and the final section describes the death of the lovers, and the reconciliation of the warring houses...
Buck explained the rise is an absolute necessity, if the University is to maintain a quality of education that cannot remain static." He remarked that Harvard has tired to forestall the rise, even though most other colleges have biked their fees during the past few years. A deficit last year, however, made the move inevitable...
Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra (Mewton-Wood, piano; members of The Hague's Residentie Orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr; Concert Hall). An incisive performance of one of Stravinsky's most inventive and amusing works (1924). Appealing and even warm in its stylishly static...
...than other Harvard presidents, his task has been reconciling education to a new world, a world which began with violent depression and has continued with a running battle among values for public accaim. Where once education neatly divided between seemingly changeless principles and attacks on those principles, attacks as static as their targets, all that has has now changed. The familiar boundaries were swept away in the thirties, replaced by intellectual chaos...
...other philosophy is that there are no static frontiers for business. To keep it ever expanding, a corporation needs the domination of a man like Avery Bullard, who is willing to devote his life to the corporation. In the end, the new president of the Tredway Corp. is a man out of the same mold as Bullard. Yet he realizes, which Bullard did not, that the presidency may turn him into a kind of machine with no soul beyond the corporation. Nevertheless, he can't resist the challenge of the job and the temptation of the ever-expanding frontier...