Word: afterthought
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sophomore tutorial was appended to the program almost as an afterthought. The Committee assumed that incoming students were ready to begin research on a concrete social problem of their choice and needed only a general introduction to the great writers and concepts of the social sciences...
...afterthought, he filed suit for $7,500,000 in damages against UPI, the Free Press and the News, charging that all three had conspired to keep him from buying the UPI service. With that. Mike Dworkin, having learned a lesson or two in journalism as well as economics, went back to school...
Would the powerful Italian bloc now rise against him and ruin his chances? Brooke's campaign managers were unworried, pointed out that he already has an enormous lead and added, almost as an afterthought, that Brooke's wife is a native of Italy anyway...
...mike, she is back in good form as the pianistic pivot of several talented groups, among them the Howard Roberts Chorus, which sings her Black Christ of the Andes. As a hymn it is simple and moving, with cool kaleidoscopic harmonies, but its jazz superstructure seems to be an afterthought...
...drums, maracas and raucous studio bands. Getz met with Singer-Guitarist Joāo Gilberto, Brazil's "pope of the bossa nova," and decided to cut one "true" bossa nova album. Gilberto's wife Astrud, who had never sung outside the kitchen before, was enlisted as an afterthought to sing the English lyrics to The Girl from Ipanema that Joāo sang in Portuguese. This spring, when it was felt that the odor of the butchered bossa had cleared, the Getz-Gilberto album was quietly released. To the trade's astonishment, the record soared toward...