Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result? A 7-0 Ivy League mark and the Crimson's first-ever Ancient Eight title...
...speaker, Cuomo is a modern master of the ancient art of rhetoric. His repertoire includes sarcasm, mimicry, hyperbole, irony, parables, analogies and allusions. He poses questions and answers them, sets up philosophical straw men and knocks them down. He begins slowly and gains momentum; he races up the hill of one sentence and coasts down another. His timing is that of a stand-up comic. His voice can be as soothing as a late-night disk jockey's or as rumbling as an Old Testament prophet's. He can, on occasion, be shrill, edging toward the sanctimonious. But always...
...reform movement has been taken at the interstate level by the Federation of State Medical Boards, a Fort Worth-based organization that acts as a clearinghouse for the individual state licensing boards. Under the leadership of Executive Vice President Bryant Galusha, the federation has done away with its ancient collection of dog-eared file cards on problem doctors and replaced it with a computerized data bank. It has persuaded the state boards to report new disciplinary actions swiftly, so that the information can be promptly entered into the system. This summer individual boards will begin hooking into the system, enabling...
...will take up posts at 30 sites run by the U.S. Army's 32nd Air Defense Command. The idea is not as ludicrous as it may seem. With their acute sense of hearing, geese when startled sound the alarm by hissing, honking loudly and flapping their wings. Indeed, the ancient Romans used geese as guards. The web-footed sentinels are said to have saved Rome by raising a noisy commotion as the Gauls approached the city walls in 390 B.C. What is more, the entire goose patrol will cost the Army about half the annual tab for a single trained...
...continue (despite Ward's retirement and my own departure), taught by Professor Pian in the first semester and jointly by her and the new Assistant Professor, Graeme Boone, in the second semester. Several graduate students are pursuing doctoral dissertations in areas of ethnomusicology ranging from music of Oceania, to ancient Chinese music, to Afro-American songs of the 19th century. Undergraduate courses in Chinese music, American folk and popular genres, and Jazz will also continue to be offered. All of these courses are supported by the steadily expanding collections of the Archive of World Music and the Seeger Room...