Sure, Americans have cookouts and fireworks, Northern Europeans make their nude tent camps in the dunes, and the French devote themselves with the usual mirthless rigor to organizing perfectly detailed vacances d'été.
They're asked to devote themselves with a jealous exclusivity to an apprenticeship of knowledge and methods in order to be able to reproduce, with the greatest speed, academic models.
"It would not surprise me if the overwhelming majority of the survivors devoted themselves with a somewhat fanatic intensity to the task of rebuilding what was destroyed".
"There is no one in the world that has devoted themselves with such passion to the heavy demands of performing, conducting and teaching at such a high and sustained level," said Peter Herrndorf, the president and chief executive of the orchestra.
Long interview with Mother Theresa of the Missionaries of Charity, a Catholic congregation founded by her in 1948, who devote themselves to working with lepers.
In 1967 the American Theater Organ Society -- an organization of organists and hobbyists who devoted themselves to the world of Wurlitzer organs and silent films in much the same way 1950's auto buffs devote themselves to cars with fins -- commissioned Mr. Erwin to compose a score for "Queen Kelley," the 1929 Erich von Stroheim silent film starring Gloria Swanson.
The dancer's nurse and the bullfighter's boyfriend (Javier Cámara, far left, and Dario Grandinetti) devote themselves to the women, with very different results.
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Nakamori will argue that during the 1970s select artists and photographers devoted themselves to experiments with the camera, individually searching for new and vital directions in their practice, exploring such emerging notions as gainen (a Japanese word for "concept"), postmodernism, and contemporaneity.
"This is a killing of people who devoted themselves to helping people with limited capabilities," he said.
