Word: ebbs
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After the third Harvard touchdown, an optimistic fan attempted to ebb the evident unrest of his peers...
...quickly changed at the start of Anton Bruckner's brooding Ninth Symphony, which comprised the second half of the concert. An ominous and disturbing work, it swings violently from melancholy introspection to frenzied passages which verge on hysteria. Bruckner started writing this Symphony during what was probably the lowest ebb of his confidence in his own work. The publisher who had promoted and loved his tremendously successful Seventh Symphony had recently told Bruckner that his Eighth Symphony was incomprehensible. After this criticism, Bruckner spent most of his time trying to revise his older works and make them more accessible...
...flavor of The New Republic and on its stature," Kinsley says. But he credits Martin H. Peretz, lecturer in social studies at Harvard and the current owner of The New Republic, as "the one who made it the influential magazine it is today. It was at a very low ebb when Marty bought it, and he has changed it greatly...
...both gay (but not a couple), became more open about their sexuality a few years ago, and on Sun their music seems to have come out as well. Their past albums were concerned, in an almost solipsistic way, with their interior lives; on Shaming of the Sun, the ebb and flow of their emotions are linked more closely with happenings in the outside world...
Steel Pier, by contrast, has been carried to Broadway by far more favorable winds. It has a score by Kander and Ebb--once again toasts of the town, thanks to the hit revival of their 1975 show, Chicago--and a premise that seems made to order for the team and for talented choreographer Susan Stroman: a 1930s dance marathon in Atlantic City. The show is cannily mounted, bouncy and often tuneful, professional all the way. Yet it's still a disappointment...