Word: vein
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Baby boomers have gone through a strange musical journey. For a time, rock music was their essential cultural touchstone, a vein of deep feeling that seemed to flow through nearly every one of them. If the oldest boomers grew up on early Stones and the youngest arrived just in time to catch Van Halen, at least they possessed a lingua franca...
...Dunne's performance than his lightweight, ingratiating style can bear. The first act is expository and lamely comic, acutely lacking the menace and madness that make the second act crackle. Sometimes the play is a chilling rumination on '80s greed. Sometimes it's merely upper Miami Vice. In either vein, it is supremely cynical. Korder asserts with equal force that run-amuck individualism is appalling and that it is the one sure path to triumph...
...dimensional images and easy stereotypes are the currency of our dealings with classical music and classical musicians. Mozart is the boy prodigy; Beethoven, the tormented, deaf visionary; Bach the obscure wigged fellow who wrote that neat organ piece they play in horror flicks. In the same vein, Joseph Haydn is remembered as the long-lived "Father of the Symphony" who also penned the great oratorios "The Seasons" and "The Creation. "Yet Haydn's vocal works display a variety that challenges the preconceived notions. Haydn, despite his reputation, was a master of many genres...
...what Nixon calls "the hard rock of enduring geopolitical realities" is honeycombed by an unexpected vein of moralism. The U.S. must continue aid to poor countries, says Nixon, at least partly because it has a "moral obligation" to help relieve suffering. More generally, the U.S. must spurn the suddenly fashionable new isolationism, not only for the expected practical reasons (its security and prosperity are inextricably bound up with those of the world at large) but also because it has "a moral imperative to use our awesome capabilities as the world's only superpower to promote freedom and justice...
...that vein that, on November 27, the new President told both houses of Congress that "[w]e will keep our commitments from South Vietnam to West Berlin." In that same speech, Johnson also said: "In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint." By Stone's standards of historiography, that might be enough to prove that, say, Johnson was a restrained leader saddled with onerous commitments from a hardline predecessor. At the very least, how on earth did the conspirators know...