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...Why do Asians really get straight A's? Why do Asians really become doctors and lawyers? Why do Asians really play the piano? Many people believe that the reason has to do with the pressure to perform and the pressure to conform, however, it goes much deeper than that—much, much deeper! This didactic novel reveals the truths about Asian cultu...

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...o Asians really become doctors and lawyers? Why do Asians really play the piano? Many people believe that the reason has to do with the pressure t... ...zement, one at the very bottom for dogs! There was even a cute, little push pedal so that you wouldn't have to bend down and strain yourself laboriou... ...re golf, but more importantly, an arcade showcasing the best Street Fighter players in the world, most from the city of Sunnyvale, which is about ha... ... recently past away. Notwithstanding the absence of the best Street Fighter players in the world, we both play each other, with much fun and exciteme... ...ays remind me of the mindless high school football player not that football players are mindless, just as a cliché and they only — — know how to do ... ...lly and figuratively. My enjoyment of silence comes to a halt as I hear the piano playing from the living room, which means that Jordan's back home,... ...s really — all that hard. Many Asian kids have spent countless hours at the piano, like Jordan and me. My parents forced me to play the piano since ...

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.... IDass. AMERICAN & EUROPEAN PLAN E. M. Moore, Mgr. W. S, Underwood Go. it PIANOS, ii DR. C. W. WRIQHT Oculist and Aurist Glasses properly fitted. Eye... ...dams, Mass, Sand Springs Cinger Ale . . It's Elegant Goes & Stodder Ofgan$ PIANO TUNING A SPECIALTY 10 Holden Street ll||OJII North Adams, Mass. l"H0H... ...hulman $> Tompanv TAILORS At Bemls' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. The Finest Line of Pianos in the County Cluett& Sons 1 16 State Street North Adams StA,NT)A"RD... ...ondly, in our attitude toward athletics. There is danger that not only the players who partici- pate in the games, but those' who sit on the bleachers... ...ed and one error. Two double plays occurred, in one of which four Williams players fig- ured. Warren took the batting honors by securing three hits fr... ...mands on the Will- iams team, weakened as it is by the loss of two leading players. A jieculiar feature of the list is that the principal period of th... ... parts that the jji- anist displayed a slight tendency to prolong the loud pedal and failed to preserve an absolute bal- ance between melody and accom...

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...nstantly, for an hour or more! Airline passengers, sporting spectators (and players), rally car drivers, chess Grand Masters, babies and the incont... ...ri – nu avem condi ţii în şcoal ă pentru o dramatizare pe m ăsur ă! (…) Am «pedalat» pe unele replici ale lui P ăcal ă care au pl ăcut în mod deose... ...AIR ARTIST SATIRE RITES TIRE TIE | | | | | | ADE DAME MEADS DAMSEL PEDALS SEPAL LEAP LAP PAL PALE AMPLE MEDALS PLEADS LEADS DEAL ... ...OTS PORTS PARTS | | | | | | PLAIN LAPIN PIANO PAINT TAINT PLAIT PLEAT TABLE BLEAT BLEAK TRACE GRACE CR...

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... our species is. That is where we came from. “To Be or not to Be” To be bi-pedal or not to be bi-pedal: should we sit in one spot and become a set... ...therers to settlements. 276 Who was the first Bi-man? He was the first bi-pedal ape that walked upright. He came from Namibia: Namibia spelled... ...ica because of its own genetic/physical/spiritual splitness. One tribe of bi-pedal apes walked along the shores of all the way around Asia to end up... ...your partner to hit the ball back to you. As a result, most fledgling tennis players get disgusted at not having a chance even to touch the ball and... ...ult ability and can control the ball with their racquets enough to beat other players who have wasted most of their lives trying to win… Competiti... ...ecting some athletic feat is everywhere in mass culture. Surfers, basketball players, skate boarders and roller-bladers waste years of their life t... ...er practice, or hanging out in the hood, or being told to go out and play, or piano lessons, or taking them to a movie where they will sit rapt at s...

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...idn’t really like Sammie’s place here — all height, no roaming room. A black grand piano stood in the center of the narrow room, a spray of silk gr... ...t say anything for the moment. “No marshals out today, either. No need. Not many players to keep moving.” “Oh well, somebody will turn it in. ... ...that fuzzy feeling again that her stalker was somewhere behind, and pressed the gas pedal. ***** At Sand Hill two cars were parked inside the o...

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.... God. O.M. Who devised the law by which it automatically hammers out of a piano an elaborate piece of music, with out error, while the man is thinki... ...and oratory: An interval in music is the distance on the keyboard from one piano to the next. A rest means you are not to sing it. Emphasis is putting... ... cook to wait on the table, you know what will happen. Cooks will play the piano if you like, but they draw the line there. In my time I have asked a ... ... Mine was not a full grown bicycle, but only a colt—a fifty inch, with the pedals shortened up to forty eight— and skittish, like any other colt. The ... ...here—that is, if you can be content to let your legs dangle, and leave the pedals alone a while; but if you grab at once for the pedals, you are gone ... ...on learn to wait a little and perfect your balance before reaching for the pedals; then the mounting art is acquired, is complete, and a little practi... ...f him as an actor. Next year—1593—his name appears in the official list of players. Next year—1594—he played before the queen. A detail of no conseque... ... had not only a casual engagement, was not only a salaried servant, as may players were, but was a shareholder in the company of the Queen’s players w...

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...l. After he had finished his fillings, he made a hook broach from a bit of piano wire to replace an old one that he had lost. It was time for his dinn... ..., and which was abso- lutely unnecessary. McTeague turned, one foot on the pedal of his dental engine, the corundum disk whirling between his fingers.... ....” “Ah, rats!” returned the other. McTeague kept silence. The two billiard players departed. The huge music-box struck into a fresh tune. “Huh!” excla... ...ght the excitement and began to bark. A waiter rushed in, the two billiard players returned, a little crowd formed. There was a veritable scene. All a... ... Polk Street. I saw the sign.” “I know where. Why, Selina used to play the piano there.” “Does she play the piano?” 51 Frank Norris “Oh, you ought to... ...in pipe and drinking his beer. He never joined any of the groups of piquet players around the tables. In fact, he hardly spoke to anyone but the barte... ...emporary fountain, and the rhythmic jangling of a brass band, while in the piano exhibit a hired performer was playing upon a con- cert grand with a g...

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...urns she hoped to discover that she had an unusual voice, a talent for the piano, the ability to act, to write, to manage organiza- tions. Always she ... ...sweaty wayfarers, for all their telephones and bank-accounts and automatic pianos and co-opera- tive leagues. And for all its fat richness, theirs is ... ...ch. Inside, it was as shiny, as hard, and as cheerful as a new oak upright piano. Carol looked imploringly at Sam Clark as he rolled to the door and s... ...d in the exalted poetry of advertising, “My tootsies never got hep to what pedal perfection was till I got a pair of clever classy Cleopatra Shoes.” “... ...some lost magazine article that in Dublin were innovators called The Irish Players. She knew con- fusedly that a man named Gordon Craig had painted sc... ..., and rattled away. The small boy and his sister ate grass and sighed. The players pretended to be exhilarated by practising service, but they startle...

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...in the wind and the bungalow shaking all over, Freya would sit down to the piano and play fierce Wagner music in the flicker of blinding flashes, with... ...half-smoked cheroot on the coffee-tray, she took alarm, glided towards the piano, opened it in tremendous haste, and struck the keys before she sat do... ...ade out. She shook her head negatively, and in desperation put on the loud pedal, but she could not make the sound of the piano cover his raised voice... ...desperation put on the loud pedal, but she could not make the sound of the piano cover his raised voice. 38 Freya of the Seven Isles “Only, I am surp... ...here had stopped talking, and were looking at him in silence. Two billiard-players, with cues in their hands, had come to the door of the billiard-roo...

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...w down their cards during the game; but their play is held to be null. The players can exchange their cards with the remainder of the pack, as in ecar... ... as in ecarte, but only by order of sequence, so that the first and second players may, and sometimes do, absorb the remainder of the pack between the... ...ic wiliness; also play of countenance. At the hotel du Guenic, each of the players took twenty counters, represent- ing five sous; which made the sum ... ...plishments. Finding herself inferior to the pretty dolls who played on the piano and made themselves agreeable by singing ballads, she determined to b... ... cousins, and driven two lovers to despair, she returned to her books, her piano, the works of Beethoven, and her old friend Faucombe. In 1812, when s... ...o longer heard it. Camille, he thought, must be playing on a small upright piano brought by Conti from England and placed by her in her own little sal... ...t? Feeling is stronger than we; one can’t resist such things. So I changed pedals. I began to entice my judicial wild-boar, now turned like Arthur to ...

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...dical one, too fiery the other. In duets of Hauptmann’s, with Nesta at the piano, the con- trast of dull smoothness and overstressed significance was ... ...t with Mr. Victor Radnor, Miss Nesta Victoria Radnor accompa- nying at the piano. It may mean? … do you want a whisper to suggest to you what it may m... ...he opening. We have no amateur conductor riding ahead: vio- lins, ‘cellos, piano, wind-stops: Peridon, Catkin, Pempton, Yatt, Cormyn, Colney, Mrs. Cor... ...that moment tossing heads or tails for in- nings. These boys were slovenly players, and were made un- happy by Skepsey’s fussy instructions to them in... ...an man to his marvellous cook; and if his notes were but as flowing as his pedals are zealous, we should be carried on the tale of the enthusiasm she ... ... gambling, the game of love was an idle entertainment. Compared with other players, this man was gifted. Victor went in to Mr. Inchling’s room, and ke...

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... two wax-candles, each protected by a moveable green shade, such as whist- players use. The goodman wore trousers /a pied/ and his gray camlet dressin... ...of an organ. This instrument, in its highest de- velopment, was equal to a piano; but the cost of it was three hundred francs. Vanda, who read the new... ...to her son, who placed himself in such a way as to press with his foot the pedal which filled the bellows; and then the invalid, whose fingers had for...

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...tes, and as soon as she entered the room had been struck by the sight of a pianoforte—a very elegant looking instrument—not a grand, but a large- size... ...e—a very elegant looking instrument—not a grand, but a large- sized square pianoforte; and the substance of the story, the end of all the dialogue whi... ...gratulations on her side, and explanations on Miss Bates’s, was, that this pianoforte had arrived from Broadwood’s the day before, to the great astoni... ...n the subject; and having so much to ask and to say as to tone, touch, and pedal, totally unsuspicious of that wish of saying as little about it as po... ...e dancing,—not classing himself with the husbands, and fathers, and whist- players, who were pretending to feel an interest in the dance till their ru...

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............................................... 13 At the End of the Game The Players Shake Hands .......................................................... ... Jenny Poust B B B B B est of F F F F F our 14 At the End of the Game The Players Shake Hands Shawn Campbell F ootball is one of the greatest sports... ...f. It helps to release tension and stress, then at the end of the game the players shake hands and say, good game. 15 C ollege students are always ... ...ed in mirrors, ballet bars every- where, and a little old lady playing the piano in the cor- ner. The teacher was tall, skinny and blonde. Her hair wa... ...t up with the rest of the car, and again he pressed firmly down on the gas pedal. The strangest thing oc- curred when I peered back to check the posit...

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...ue. It was terrifying at first, considering that I was one of the smallest players in the league and my coach was now pitching the ball to us. When it... ...s is ended we go home, and sing Christmas carols. My grandmother plays the piano, and my mother, aunts, sisters, and I sing Christmas carols. While we... ...end must have passed out behind the wheel and his foot become heavy on the pedal. His car became faster as it swerved into the lane heading right for ... ...from sand in our back yard. Everything was great: we had a steering wheel, pedals, and we were screaming beeping sounds to imitate the horn. Out of no... ...ghly competitive leagues and tournaments, there is a similar problem among players of any level: properly setting the volleyball. What is the best thi...

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... as an engineer or in the law. She taught him to read, and even, on an old piano, she had taught him two or three little songs. But to all this Monsie... ...n”; and so knew dancing, geography, drawing, how to embroider and play the piano. That was the last straw. “So it is for this,” she said to herself, “... ...her work, or rolling, between her fingers, little bread-pellets. As to the piano, the more quickly her fingers glided over it the more he wondered. Sh... ...terns glimmering through the darkness. The seats began to empty, some card-players were still left; the musicians were cooling the tips of their finge... ...ois. I tell you again you are doing yourself harm, much harm! And besides, players now want narrow pockets and heavy cues. Hazards aren’ t played now;... ...believe that a simple sternutation could produce such ravages on a quadru- pedal organism? It is extremely curious, is it not?” “Y es,” said Charles, ...

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...e next English; why it was that at certain hours they played by turns on the piano, the sounds of which were audible in their brother’s room above, wh... ...e, don’t pick out the possible suitors. Invite all the young bucks. Engage a piano player, and let them dance, and not as you do things nowadays, hunt... ...etersburg life that he was used to. “Impossible!” he cried, letting down the pedal of the washing basin in which he had been sousing his healthy red n... ...ked her to come and sing to them in the evening. “Kitty plays, and we have a piano, not a good one, it’s true, but you will give us so much pleasure?”... ...dinner they sat on the terrace, then they proceeded to play lawn tennis. The players, divided into two parties, stood on opposite sides of a tightly d... ...so tired that she sat down with Princess Varvara and simply looked on at the players. Her partner, Tushkevitch, gave up playing too, but the others ke... ...t. Veslovsky played worse than the others. He was too eager, but he kept the players lively with his high spirits. His laughter and out cries never p...

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... old age. After a few more turns of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the la... ...your money on the cards or I may get muddled in the reckoning.” One of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. “Y es, you might, but I am afrai... ...o deal. 190 War & Peace CHAPTER XIV AN HOUR AND A HALF LA TER most of the players were but little interested in their own play . The whole interest w... ...the total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other players, or peered at the now cold face of Dolokhov and tried to read what ... ...n lying there. It was unsatisfactory everywhere, but the corner behind the piano in the sitting room was bet- ter than other places: he had never slep...