INTRODUCTION TO ACT I Today on TUNING IN THE U.S.A., we are on a train going to Washington, D.C. Ellen Stewart is taking Alexandra Pappas to visit the nations Capital. They are, in many ways, like other tourists. They want to visit the Air and Space

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Its our 4th anniversary and to celebrate, were bringing back one of our most popular podcasts as voted for by you, the listeners. Weve freshened up the examples and explanations, and we hope youll enjoy this new version. When youre making an argument

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Good evening, my fellow Americans: Tonight I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. No other question so preoccupies our people. No other dream so absorbs the 250 million human beings who live in that part of the world. No othe

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Todd: So, going back to before you went in to the army, what made you get so big? Was it just that you were sitting all day? Were you eating hamburgers everyday or what were you doing? Jade: I don't want to blame American culture ... but as you said,

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This is scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Would America be a better place if more people with science training held elective office? One organization that thinks so is Scientists and Engineers for America, or SEA.

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Grammar Girl here. Today I'm announcing the top five Grammar Girl pet peeves of 2008. About a month ago, I asked Grammar Girl listeners to submit their pet peeves for consideration for the peeves of 2008 list, and boy, do you have a lot of peeves! Wh

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A: Nice to meet you. B: Its very nice meeting you, too. A: Im excited to speak to a candidate. B: What would you like to ask me? A: What is your stand on gay marriage? B: I feel that people can love who they want. A: So, would you make gay marriage l

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A: I havent seen you around, so you must be new here. B: As a matter of fact, I am. A: Its nice meeting you. B: Nice to meet you too. A: When did you move out here? B: I moved here about a month ago. A: What do you think of it so far? B: Its great. A

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Representatives form 16 countries wrapped up three days of meetings on regional cooperation in which they agreed East Asia needs a new economic structure that is less dependent on exports to the United States. The Association of Southeast Nations has

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Coaches and Referees(教练与裁判) We now look at the two men who have a great amount of influence on a game without even kicking the ball - coaches and referees. These two individuals can turn a game around by the blow of a whistle or the

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The great composer's romantic life was much less successful. He gave piano lessons to many women of noble birth. In 1801, he dedicated the Moonlight Sonata to one of these aristocratic pupils whom he loved. Her name was Countess Giulietta Guicciardi.

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Beethoven's mother died of consumption. The inscription says that she was such a good, kind mother to me and indeed my best friend. His father became more and more alcholic till it finally became the case that, Beethoven had to ask for his father's s

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The typical piano of 1790s, say, 3, in Vienna was a fairly light instrument, and it was very well suited to the kind of pianism that were most conventional in Vienna at that time. Beethoven changed the whole style of playing. He wanted bigger pianos,

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Beethoven's music was controversial; it could be interpreted in two quite extreme ways as, as very bad or very good, therefore perhaps much more so than other music, it was in need of framing, it needed a kind of protective envelope, that could intro

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It's in the Eroica that for the first time everyone is convinced this really is Beethoven's voice. The extraordinary thing about the premiere of Beethoven 3rd was that it was done of course in a very small room, in the Lobkowitz's palace, but I think

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The Fifth Symphony is really something absolutely new. The symphony starts with da da da dathats no music, it is political agitation, so it is like a manifestation of ideas. Erits not good the way we live, its not good, and, then you, umat one moment

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Immediately after the concert with Napoleon once again threatening to invade Vienna, Beethoven began another colossal work with military themes. For the first time, Beethoven did not play at the premiere, he was too deaf. He never finished another pi

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On July 5th, 1812, Beethoven arrived in Teplitz from Prague, and over three days wrote a passionate love letter. My angel, my all, my very self, only a few words todayCan our love endure except through sacrifices? Through not demanding everything? Ca

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Money was also the motivation for writing the late string quartets. Prince Gelatin Commission Wattznard regarded it as the greatest music Beethoven ever wrote. To many contemporaries, this strange music was a definite proof that the composer had lost

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Beethoven died in Vienna on March 26th , 1827, at the age of 56,in this room in the house of the Black-Robed Spaniards. The very end of his life, his health got even worse than it normally was . His intestines started to swell, the condition was drop

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