"I liked the minerality and acidity, and the reduced emphasis on winemaking".
This reduced emphasis on the traditional ballet vocabulary might appear to place him at odds with City Ballet, which strives to maintain the highest standards of classical technique.
The reduced emphasis on stimulus versus austerity occurs even as unemployment remains at double digits in much of Europe, stoking unrest especially among the young.
In an e-mail statement, a company spokeswoman, Diana Wong, said: "Yahoo plans to invest in some areas, reduce emphasis in others, and eliminate some areas of the business that don't support the company's priorities.
The second lesson he would draw would be of the need to rethink the way economics is taught, with a much reduced emphasis on mathematical models and the restoration to the curriculum of economic history.
Time was when pianists like Earl Hines, Art Tatum and Fats Waller took this daunting challenge for granted, but the coming of be-bop, with its sharply reduced emphasis on left-hand time keeping, made solo jazz piano something of a rarity, even a novelty.
Advocating that America reduce emphasis on classroom maths, if only to reduce "math phobia", he noted: "There is something vaguely comical about the nation that leads the world in science and technology, and virtually dominates the world in the development of computer hardware and software, constantly lamenting the poor maths skills of its population".
The consequences of Rousseau's basic view have been (1) a reduced emphasis on knowing and greater emphasis on acting and doing, (2) a promotion of positive interests in learning, and (3) an encouragement of the child to depend on his own resources.
In your call for a reduced emphasis on testing ("The Trouble With Testing Mania," editorial, July 14), you refer to a review of teacher education programs by the National Council on Teacher Quality, noting that, in contrast to Finland, the United States "has an abysmal system of teacher preparation".
