To demand something else: a reprieve.
Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht" demands something else -- an intensity sufficiently focused to illuminate the work's emotional complexities.
The tone of William Plomer's text, derived from Lytton Strachey's book "Elizabeth and Essex," also demands something else, and so does the music, with its stirring brass fanfares, telling allusions to music of bygone times and imposing massed ensembles.
Now, as the radical new "truths" about the new economy seem less true, I realize that I needed more grounding in the old economy before I tried to understand the new one -- even if I "demanded" something else.
What Steve Jobs taught us, and what his personal note reminds us today, is that true change demands something else entirely.
And our nation, or any nation for that matter, is ill served by replacing rule of law with mob rule when founding principles demand something else.
But, most important, as transparency becomes yesterday's news (in that it's now a part of corporate life and no longer a trend), look for today's consumers and global citizens to demand something else of their products, their leaders and their own lives: the need to do good and carry on.
Sure, they'd love to see everyone being successful with exclusively free software, but on the whole they're pragmatic enough to know that their users may want — indeed, demand — something else.
Yet, this moment, this crossroads, demands something else from us.
Responding to demand is something else that most educators don't seem to get, perhaps because they have grown accustomed to their monopoly.
