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...Masters Classics), that contains six pieces--by Chopin, Schumann and Liszt--whose historical importance he discusses as well. One highlight is Rosen's commanding performance of Liszt's terrifyingly difficult tour de force of homage and imagination, Reminiscences de Don Juan, inspired by Mozart's Don Giovanni. In the text, he isolates from that piece a passage that erupts spectacularly in a cascade of chromatic octaves alternating with single notes. Liszt's dramatic ingenuity, writes Rosen, would "make explicit a Victorian condemnation of Don Juan's morals and amount to an assertion that his erotic misbehavior will lead to eternal...
...contribution to the Supreme Court. Any fair person who has read Thomas' decisions is forced to admit that he has emerged as an intellectually vigorous voice on the court. His writings this term, like those of previous years, have articulated a robust judicial philosophy that properly respects the text and history of the Constitution and show due sensitivity for the policymaking role of the democratically elected branches of government...
...public buildings, transit systems and communications networks has made a once daunting world more navigable. Curb ramps, lift-equipped buses and extrawide rest-room stalls for wheelchair users are now as common a feature of the American landscape as are closed-captioned TV titles. A phone relay system called Text Telephone enables the deaf to order pizza. "There's a guy in Georgia who has a job for the first time because his bus has a lift, and a woman in Kentucky who's seen her brother play baseball for the first time because the stadium was made wheelchair accessible...
...text and the movements are synchronized so beautifully that the pairing never feels forced. Instead, it becomes a natural part of the onstage world...
These questions hum in the background of Timberg's text: Does America need a warrior class? When? How trained? How protected from their own politicians? Should they be kept belowdecks like Ahab's harpooners and brought up only when there is a white whale to be killed? Vietnam was the white whale, sure enough...