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Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream is the work of a mature opera composer who was able to devise the libretto himself, with the help of Peter Pears (who sang the part of Lysander), trimming the play without altering the text and making bold choices in the musical treatment of the characters.

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As the music educator Isaac Stern said: "Not to make 'musicians' out of everyday performers, but more important, to make them educated, alert, caring, inquiring young people, who, by playing music, feel a part of the connective tissue between what the mind of man has been able to devise and the creativity of music... in other words, become literate, and part of the culture of the whole world".

A. Peter Van Winkle, the owner of A. W. Van Winkle Real Estate, a Rutherford, N.J., brokerage company, said that the best answer he has been able to devise for the commonly asked question is: "If it isn't a split-level, and it isn't a ranch, and it isn't a Cape Cod, then it must be a colonial".

Learning from such "positive deviants", but also experimenting repeatedly and quickly, has much to offer the world of aid.Of course, the poor must be able to devise such strategies in the first place.

As a result of information gained from these tests, American tacticians were able to devise ways to defeat the Zero, which was the Imperial Japanese Navy's primary fighter plane throughout the war.

By 1960, with the use of special diffraction techniques and the help of computers to analyze the X-ray data, Kendrew was able to devise a three-dimensional model of the arrangement of the amino acid units in the myoglobin molecule, which was the first time this had been accomplished for any protein.

But, even before Wednesday's announcement, Republicans signalled that they would not be able to devise a tax-reform plan along the lines of the 1986 changes.

He credited Ms. Jackson with frequently being able to devise a "political maneuver to blunt the stuff coming from the builders".

While one highly advanced part of the human brain is able to devise a machine that can fly over the ocean, another more primitive part is confused and terrified by finding itself up there.

Even with Libya's ragged rebellion still troubled by internal divisions, several days traveling with rebel troops — along with interviews with rebel leaders, NATO diplomats and officials in Washington — reveal that rebel forces were able to devise a careful plan for the final assault on Tripoli that unfolded with a swiftness few had predicted.

Though the sewers were becoming increasingly hazardous, the Bureau was able to devise still another route, this one through a rain-water channel in the northern section of the city.

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