Word: phrasing
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...from it. But even if Harvard were to rid itself of the prejudices of enlightened academia and their attendant cant, it would still be incongruous for our University to make even a half-hearted attempt at celebrating Christmas. The Christmas spirit, to invoke a hackneyed but useful phrase, just doesn't fit in with the spirit of Harvard...
Even after Friday, many legal experts were still shocked that the court took the state case to begin with. They contend that the Justices will simply decide not to rule, availing themselves of an option used several times each term: dismissing the case as "improvidently granted," a phrase at once imperious and penitent that means the Justices believe the case does not present the issues they thought it did when they accepted it. The court may wait a while to decide whether to do this, looking carefully at how Gore's contest proceeds. "I think the Justices will be concerned...
...members of Wu-Tang are street-corner scientists, experimenting, theorizing, pushing the limits of what's possible in hip-hop. The phrase experimental music usually suggests that the work in question is somehow hard to enjoy and impossible to understand. Wu-Tang's lyrics and intentions can be perversely oblique, but their music manages to be experimental and populist at the same time. Wu-Tang's songs have the loose but intricate feel of late-night jazz jams--they're artfully crafted but emotionally...
...What does Florida law say about which undervotes count? Nothing, which is the problem. The legislature has said only that a legal vote exists if there is "clear indication of the intent of the voter," a frustratingly rubbery phrase. In its Friday ruling ordering counts of the undervotes, the Florida Supreme Court simply quoted that vague guideline. Nor did Judge Terry Lewis, who was implementing the hand count, offer any specifics. So on Saturday, before the U.S. Supreme Court halted the counting, each of 64 canvassing boards was making its own decisions - on dimples, on who would observe the counts...
...premiere of Donald Martino's Romanza, written especially for Schulte for this concert. The work, for solo violin, opened with extreme intervallic explorations that lead to variations that increase in intensity. As the composer wrote in the program notes, "The sets of variations at first are cast within traditional phrase-length boundaries, but as the line unfolds, these become freer and more fanciful." The three parts of the work (alternately slow, fast and slow) flowed well, and there was some obvious excellent writing, such as the one part where the violin seamlessly and idiomatically alternated between bowed and plucked notes...