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...part of the protest, but stemmed from the emotional pride of the anti-PLO students. The audience should have ideally exercised more self-control; Rachmun's speech was so filed with historical revision that it became self-in-criminating. Nonetheless, the highly charged situation inside Ames Courtroom, Rachmun's string of invidious remarks and the jeering and shouting of Rachmun's supporters fueled the disruptions. Under normal circumstances, to protest without listening to the other side is close-minded; but, to listen to inflammatory and blatantly false statements without an emotional response would require superhuman resilience. It would also border...
...triangular device with a string-suspension system won the best engineered category...
...loss was the third extra-innings defeat for the Crimson in the tournament and the disheartened Cantabs played out the string, losing to Yale, 7-1 and Dartmouth...
Like a championship team, a great orchestra executes its tasks with precision, élan and grace. String sections attack and release a note together, blending their sounds to form a single smooth line. Woodwinds have a distinctive character that lets them stand out against the full orchestra, yet merge back into it when necessary. Brass players keep their often recalcitrant instruments under beguilingly complete control; when a trumpeter reaches for a high note, there is no uncertainty that it will come out right. Overseeing all this is the music director, who balances the orchestra's component parts and gives...
...pilgrimage to Soviet Armenia makes furious love with her guide. The lengthiest improvisation is narrated by the poet Surkov, who fancies he is Pushkin incarnate. After a jealous scene with Pushkin's wife, he retells the master's unfinished tale, Egyptian Nights, followed by a parodic string of bromides: "Her black eyes flashed . . . Her red lips were inviting . . . Her bosom swelled over the décolletage...