Word: uttered
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...paradox of Hans Werner Henze extends from his life to his art. A member of the progressive Darmstadt circle of composers after World War II, Henze broke decisively with the avant-garde in the mid-'50s and today sneers at the "utter boredom" of doctrinaire serialism. For all his radical leftist politics, Henze's own music is on the musical right. In a way, he is the Brahms of his day, writing in forms such as symphony, concerto and oratorio, preserving the traditional structures in the ace of the avant-gardist onslaught. Henze has mixed idioms freely throughout...
Within the Administration, some advisers insisted that Stockman had never expressed many of the reservations about the Reagan economic policies that he had conveyed so freely to Greider. Said one presidential aide: "It came as a complete and utter surprise. This is just not Reagan team play." Asked a Treasury official: "How can you trust a guy like that again? Everywhere we go, we're going to have to live with what he did." Argued one Administration economist: "He's destroyed the President's credibility and his program, whether he goes or stays...
ONLY FOUR FRESHMEN have signed the book at Leavitt's to accompany their class eleven to New Haven. This is the most disheartening evidence of utter lack of class loyalty that any class has shown certainly within the recollection of the present generation of college men. Ninety-five has given plenty of evidence already this fall that in most respects it is the poorest class that has entered Harvard for some time. The class has done nothing creditable up to this time into which it has not been goaded by stress of public opinion. In previous years freshman classes have...
...Stock prices have fallen to their lowest level in 15 months, and corporate bond values are reaching record depths. Says David Jones, chief economist for the Wall Street securities firm of Aubrey G. Lanston & Co.: "The feeling in the market is horrible. Prices just keep falling. It's utter frustration. Hopelessness...
...College's inability to train undergraduates in basic prose. She remembers that her most successful sessions included lectures from professional writers who shared their experiences with her neophyte authors. Gloria Emerson, who wrote moving accounts of the Vietnam war, brought many students to tears, Lord remembers, by describing the utter tragedy of her subject. "You have to figure out some way to move the kids," Lord says...