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With the Declaration, Jefferson gave the Enlightenment its most eloquent and succinct political expression. He lifted the human race into a higher orbit...
...Wait I thought this was a Piano Quartet, where's the pianist?" "No, no, don't you see it's an orchestration." However perturbing this might have been at first, by the end of the triumphant fourth movement, all were raised to their feet. To quote Schoenberg's own succinct explanation...
...often been called a high-tech architect, but actually, despite the complexity of some of his designs, the buildings don't brandish their technological language as gee-whiz metaphor; they use it as an essential tool of spatial effects and structural needs, always seeking the most elegant and succinct solution. "The idea of high-tech is a bit misleading," Foster says. "Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you can't separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building...
True, the damage being done by poison chemicals today is far worse than it was when she wrote the book. Yet one shudders to imagine how much more impoverished our habitat would be had Silent Spring not sounded the alarm. Well crafted, fearless and succinct, it remains her most celebrated book, although her wonderful essays on the sea may be remembered longer. Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters...
...that the government would miss its self-imposed March 31 deadline for Y2K compliance. Like a child badly in need of a parent-teacher conference, the government has problems meeting deadlines. The Y2K status report announcement, made late Wednesday by the White House Office of Management and Budget, was succinct. Three federal agencies -- the Transportation Department, Health and Human Services, and the Agency for International Development -- have made little or no progress in winnowing out the Y2K bug. Only 80 percent of key government computers have been given a clean bill of health. The cost for ensuring that the government...