Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blake and Stone say that this is vital to the council regaining its position as the representative body of Harvard students--a position they believe has been lost over the past several years...
Student groups play a vital role on campus, onethat the council cannot always fill, he says."There are some things the U.C. can't provide.[There are those] students who want to see Gilbertand Sullivan, and not everyone on the U.C. has thegreatest singing voice...
Swasey and White say they hope to make the campus community a more vital and exciting place...
...Koehne's piece to be of the modernist or neo-modernist aesthetic just because it is considered contemporary; don't think "Michel Foucault does orchestral music." Rather, the composer opts for the "Reconstructionist" aesthetic--the program notes state, "Koehne has moved towards an affirmation of traditional values and a vital opposition to what he sees as the sham iconoclasm of the avantgardist attitude." In particular, Elevator Music was inspired by the integration of jazz and popular music into orchestral music. But the piece sounds more like film music than a symphony. Koehne calls his piece a contemporary homage...
...will be ignored by all but those who evaluate movies in terms of shock and gore. Jon Favreau and the other talented people involved in this movie will presumably go on to, if not Great, at least Somewhat Better Things. The question of whether dark comedy, which was so vital so recently, can survive is unresolved. Certainly the existence of the movie paints a pessimistic picture of what happens to innovators in Hollywood: their innovations are derivatively imitated or altogether scorned. Such were the fates of Pulp Fiction and The Cable Guy, respectively. One hopes, however, that despite...