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...heavens above Southeast Texas finally seemed ready to give the region a break last Wednesday. More than 20 in. of rain had fallen in less than 48 hours, sending Houston's San Jacinto River to record levels and forcing 13,000 residents to abandon their homes. At least 18 people died in the swirling floodwaters. But now the skies were clearing, the river was subsiding, and people were returning to their homes. Then the river exploded...
...leader, recorded on Roost in 1947, kicking off with a sprung version of I'll Remember April that betrays none of Powell's troubles. It bursts with giddy invention that could have tipped the song into anarchy if Powell hadn't been able to restrain his own abandon. He was so good and so graceful, he could realize his inspirations with tremendously controlled dexterity. The earliest of the Verve recordings are from 1949, and they end with a 1955 session in which Powell, his bass player and drummer close out with a heavyweight combination: Gillespie's Bebop and Monk...
...have no plan at all to abandon the current program," Lewis said. "It's a terrific thing for us and an asset for people who might want to go to Harvard...
...think it might be a good experiment for Bennington, because Bennington has always emphasized the creative profile," Ryan said. "I can't imagine that it would be effective for us.... Obviously the scholarly perspective is an important one. A university like Harvard would be particularly foolish to abandon the scholarly perspective on literature and the arts...
...undergraduates want to abandon classical or alternative music, however...