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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fortunately, if the music composed today too often seems removed from anything most people can understand and appreciate, saying that the conventional repertoire has nothing to say to "modern man" is like saying Shakespeare has little to tell us about the human condition...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Stop, Look and Liszten | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

That something is not necessarily profundity, though it might be. It might also be wit, or melancholy, or languor. Classical music is not, repeat, not all serious. Once you understand its language, or languages, it has a much wider range of expression than other types of music...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Stop, Look and Liszten | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...also said the decision was a "compromise." "I understand there were some doubts in the American judicial system," Shamir told Israel television in an interview conducted in Paris, where he is visiting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waldheim Defends War Record | 4/29/1987 | See Source »

Most definitely. I now fully understand a computer's capabilities: the six commands which will work on a computer are Let, Print, Goto, If...Then, Input...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, | Title: The QRR: A Harvard Rite of Passage | 4/28/1987 | See Source »

...computer education continued. "Just define your variables, make the computer print whatever statements they tell you to, and input one variable." Then she told me I would have to use something called an "If...Then " command. I didn't understand what the command did, but I didn't need to, so I just memorized what I would have to type...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, | Title: The QRR: A Harvard Rite of Passage | 4/28/1987 | See Source »

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