Word: connections
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...challenge of crafting a concert of canonical anchors like the Beethoven symphonies is to avoid easy recourse to the habit of flawless dignity. Consummate artistry involves not only the meaningful realization of a composition, but the further ability to destroy and then resurrect its grandeur—to connect with the inner greatness of the work while stripping away the pomp that surrounds it. The goal is for the audience to like it not because they are supposed to, but because they can’t help...
Despite references to “tunnels” over the Winthrop e-mail list, only a basement has been opened—not one of the underground Harvard University Dining Services tunnels that connect several River Houses, according to Miller...
What set the Canadian pair apart, says Dovolani, was their ability to connect to each other and express emotion. For that, he looks not at the skates, where the ice-dancing judges train their attention, but at the upper body. "I always watch their posture, their connection, and who leads and who follows," he says. "Even if it is a very technical sport, [the judges] are still human beings ... and they are emotionally affected whether they like...
...danger of chronic joblessness is that jobs are a part of the social fabric. Ideally, they connect people to constructive projects and well-ordered institutions. They foster self-discipline and reward responsibility. Some optimists theorize that crime rates might continue to drop in coming years as police pit their strength against a dwindling army of criminals. In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders - including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke - could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn...
...sense in the audience that something must be done, but that much can be done. Put differently in an email from the Haitian Artists Assembly of Massachusetts Co-Director Charlot J. Lucien, “the authenticity and the emotion these works carry will help people around the world connect with Haitians as people, with their culture, and ultimately through this culture, engage Haitian friends in the rebuilding of Haiti for the long term...