Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never met anyone who's had his technique ruined by a keyboard with full-sized keys," reassures L.A. music instructor Alpha Walker, who has been teaching piano for nearly 30 years. "Kids who didn't take lessons because they didn't have pianos are signing up to work on the keyboard." The instrument has amassed all the pop impact of the electric guitar. "Everyone who presses a key can get a sound," says the jazz-based singer-songwriter Patrice Rushen. "But combining those sounds, to really use the keyboard as an instrument, that's when the talent comes...
Viet Nam was the alpha and omega of an increasingly tangled American psyche. In 1968, it was a series of national traumas...
...beginning was Viet Nam, the alpha and omega of an increasingly tangled American psyche. Thousands of miles from the U.S. mainland, the nation's optimism and self-image were bogging down. By January 1968, nearly 16,000 Americans had died in Viet Nam; more than 100,000 had been wounded. The number of U.S. troops in that remote, frustrating country hit 500,000 in February. At home, the strain of the war effort was rubbing harder against the certainties of Pentagon planners, as Americans watched nightly televised images of young men engaged in search-and-destroy missions with a stubbornly...
...goal is to elect, all together, 10 percent of the men in the class to the Alpha Chapter," said Weiss...
...Alpha Chapter also selected Ameek Ponda, Economics; Bjorn M. Poonen, Mathematics; Daniel A. Raskas, Government; H. Scott Roy, Computer Science; Daniel S. Sage, Mathematics; Andrew A. Samwick, Economics; Andrew R. Slusky, Economics; Alexander B. Star, History and Literature; Adam F. Strassberg, Engineering Sciences; Nicholas Waldvogel, Music; Adam Weiss, Fine Arts; and John C. Yoo, History...