Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think they don't understand the mission and nature of the college and that this is the way it works here," she said. "But I think they're calming down a little...
...understand Kelly McBride--or at least a large part of her--you merely have to walk up the driveway of her house in Haverford, Penn...
Despite the book's faults--its over-ambitiousness, its sometimes befuddling organization, and an occasional lack of theoretical rigor that will displease the sociologically-minded--Understanding Toscanini will captivate classical music lovers as well as those who want to understand the state of the performing arts in America...
...doesn't need to understand or believe in Hegelian epistemology to recognize the syndromes Understanding Toscanini analyzes. Many decades have passed since "classical" music, whatever that is, was a living, breathing art, unencumbered by its own prestige and the status-seeking of audiences...
...stories, remaining engaging throughout its many facets. And still it attempts to go beyond its technical workmanship. It has a sympathetic message to deliver, revealed in the closing words: "More than to hug them, I want ... to talk to them ... and it could even be ... that we would understand each other...