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...Fleisher has put Wittgenstein's and his own misfortune to good use, playing three of the pieces commissioned by the Austrian. The Ravel Concerto in D Major is so powerfully conceived and artfully composed that its limitation is hardly apparent; in many ways it is superior to the same composer's two-handed Concerto in G Major. Fleisher digs into the dark, angst- ridden work, plumbing its depths with the unimpaired musical intelligence that has always marked his playing. (Would that his accompanists, Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony, were on the same wavelength.) He sprints through Prokofiev's steely...
Even if some other creatures have crossed this mental Rubicon, human analytical abilities remain vastly superior to anything demonstrated elsewhere in the animal kingdom. In virtually all studies of animal intelligence and language skills, performance plummets as more elements are added to a task and as an animal has to remember these elements for long periods. By contrast, humans can call on vast working memory...
...everyone agrees with this account. Sgt. William Donaldson, who was on duty that night, said the chief was notified "over the weekend" but refused to specify exactly when. Either Donaldson or a superior was supposed to have called the chief, sources said...
Indeed, Roger Williams could hardly play at Harvard's level. But although it was severely deficient in every basic volleyball skill, Roger Williams managed to stave off embarrassment against the superior Crimson...
...with a bomb, Heisenberg never claimed he blocked the program out of moral compunctions. This book asserts he did: "He killed it," Powers writes. It is a line of argument that has always upset Manhattan Project scientists because it suggests that Germans who worked for the Nazis struck a superior moral stance. Readers need not agree with Powers. He provides plenty of evidence and argument on all sides of the issue...