He pauses, and acknowledges with a smile that it is "quite a lot to get in 80 minutes!" "There's intense emotion from start to finish," acknowledges Leonard.
But -- as The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians acknowledged with a vengeance in 2001, when it ballooned from an unwieldy 20 volumes to an astounding 29 -- at a time when musical boundaries are falling in every direction, updating also means an expansion of purview.
However, standing at 5ft 11ins, he is tall for a jockey and acknowledges with weight an issue, his riding days are possibly numbered.
Both interviewees and contact persons were acknowledged with a gift basket.
So the fact that "The Mountaintop" — written by Katori Hall, a Tennessean in her late 20s at the time — won the 2010 Olivier and was praised by one London newspaper, The Independent, as "breathtaking, hilarious and heart-stopping" should be acknowledged with a fair amount of skepticism.
The ecological impact of roads and traffic is now widely acknowledged, with a variety of mitigation strategies such as purpose designed fauna underpasses and overpasses commonly installed to facilitate animal movement.
Hit songs are increasingly "broken" through video clips, viewed in their millions on YouTube and Vevo, a shift the Brits acknowledged with a revived Best Video award, voted for via social media during the show.
Under the new guidelines, applications submitted by Saudi males between the ages of 18 and 45 are now almost invariably acknowledged with a pre-printed form advising the applicants to report to the embassy in three weeks.
And we established staff-recognition awards that acknowledged (with a substantial monetary prize) outstanding work.
If Tyler Clementi had remembered to do this — to yield his personal life to the machine and acknowledge, with Shakespeare, that the world's a soundstage — he might have shrugged off the embarrassment he suffered and made a reality show of his existence.
