Mar 2nd, 2010 · All day today, the staff at NPR Music has been consumed with finding new ways to rework composer Frederic Chopin's name. It all started because this year marks the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth. NPR Music is celebrating the occasion with a series of live performances, interviews and essays, and someone mentioned that we were in a state of Chopin-demonium from all of our exhaustive coverage, followed by the appropriate groans.
Keywords: celebration · music · anniversary · interviews · apologized · NPR Music · Composing · appropriate · Chopin · Frederic Chopin · chopuns · demonium
Feb 9th, 2010 · Democratic Congressman John Murtha died Monday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., after complications from gallbladder surgery. He was 77. Murtha represented southwestern Pennsylvania for 36 years. Most of that time he was the top Democrat on defense appropriations — moving billions of dollars and sending as much as he could to his home district.
Keywords: Surgery · Democrats · Rep · military · dollars · districts · Va · southwestern · appropriate · Arlington · Murtha · gallbladder
Jan 29th, 2010 · The band's detractors are vocal, deriding it as a bunch of Ivy League white guys who appropriate African music for personal gain. But, while Vampire Weekend is one of the most hotly debated acts of the Internet age, its new Contra just entered the Billboard albums charts at No. 1.
Keywords: music · Africans · Internet · album · Blog · appropriate · vampires · Detractors · derided · Ivy League · Vampire Weekend · emBillboard
Jan 26th, 2010 · Bill Gates says energy innovation has been on his mind lately, and he has posted an angular, politically incorrect complaint about the extent to which the country is missing the point on the appropriate goals and means for carbon reduction.
Keywords: country · energy · innovation · carbon · appropriate · incorrect · Bill Gates · republic · Angular
Jan 20th, 2010 · The Army said it's going to decide if psychiatrists at Walter Reed "failed to take appropriate action" against shooting suspect Nidal Hasan and were "derelict" in their duties. Among the doctors apparently under investigation is the only supervisor who actively tried to kick Hasan out of the psychiatry program.
Keywords: army · dereliction · supervisor · investigators · suspect · appropriate · Psychiatrists · Psychiatry · disciplines · Walter Reed · Hasan · Nidal Hasan
Dec 29th, 2009 · In the wake of the unsuccessful Christmas Day terrorist attack on a Northwest flight bound for Detroit, many Americans seemed to react with a collective shrug and some humor. Experts say the reaction is perfectly appropriate to the risk level shown so far.
Keywords: terrorist · Americans · Detroit · Christmas Day · appropriate · unsuccessful
Dec 15th, 2009 · The most appropriate word I could use to define Loveless is dense. It's hard to crack, hard to get behind the wall of noise and find emotion or passion in the music. There's a stoicism about it that makes it difficult to connect with. Not being able to decipher the lyrics, I looked them up in hopes of finding something to grab onto, but I just wasn't impressed. I suppose I wanted more poetry and depth somewhere under all the fuzz.
Keywords: music · emotional · Poetry · loving · passion · appropriate · decipher · Dense · stoicism · suppose
Oct 22nd, 2009 · The debate over an appropriate U.S. strategy in Afghanistan hinges, in part, on differing assessments of the Taliban's relations with al-Qaida. The aggressive U.S. pursuit of al-Qaida has hampered its operations. But there is a counterargument: The Taliban has grown stronger, wealthier and more radical, and may now be disposed to offer more support to al-Qaida.
Keywords: Afghanistan · Taliban · Relations · Strategy · Disposal · Intel · Radical · appropriate · wealthier · al Qaida · counterargument
