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Stone:.. with a synthesizer-like framework of harpsichord, piano, and organ notes played simultaneously, which is much too tightly controlled to flesh out the emotion in the words...
...avoid being superfluous, Rosenstone would have to provide some sort of framework within which Reed's drive to participate in these events could be understood. Rosenstone, however, fails to do this. In his preface, he declares himself against imposing "any full blown psychological theory" on Reed's life and says he will instead use "my own understanding of how and why men act." What this "understanding" consists of, however, is never elaborated. Rosenstone is content to make vague generalizations about "men of Reed's generation" and "the nature of modern society...
...Kippur sermon at Memorial Church on September 14, Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of Harvard Hillel, announced his leadership of a militant Jewish thrust within the Harvard community. This is a regretful event, potentially even more destructive of that delicate framework of civility which sustains Harvard's greatness than the past militancy of blacks, leftists, and women. Like the latter's spokesmen, Rabbi Gold's claims for redressing Jewish grievances would have Harvard surrender its painstakingly acquired universalism to the cathartic requisites of a new particularism. He considers Harvard's past injuries to Jews grounds for inflicting upon Harvard today...
...each elegantly rounded vowel like a trajectory for a gunshot-sharp consonant. Just as she tried in her poetry to use her craft and skill to "manipulate intense personal experience"--as she says in an interview included on the record--so she uses impeccable diction to give a defining framework to the raw, brute emotion in her voice...
...took over the radio and TV station and caught Abdallah's Territorial Guard totally by surprise. "The mouthings of that man [Abdallah] are henceforth meaningless," declared Comoro's new chief, Prince Said Ibrahim Jaffar, who promised to restore close ties with France within the framework of independence and give Mayotte autonomy inside a Comoro federation. The coup was bloodless, and everybody but Abdallah seemed happy with the reversal of history's usual anticolonial tide...