Word: aram
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seven-year-old campus literary magazine Padan Aram will, for the second year in a row, publish only one issue, cutting back from the traditional quarterly schedule...
Epps receives another $2000 beyond the $1000 reserved for each House, which he distributes to various cultural or artistic undergraduate endeavors. In the past, he has awarded grants to the Harvard Advocate. Padam Aram (an undergraduate literary magazine), the Ballet Folklorico (a Mexican dance group), the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and the Japanese Culture Society...
...music of Aram Il'yich Khachaturian (1903-1978) has Armenian and Middle Eastern elements. The second movement has long drones, eloquent turns. It approaches the inspired, improvised style of Arab and Indian performers. The infustion of folk elements won it the Stalin Prize (now called the State Prize) in 1941; but the continued development of Khachaturian's almost brash individuality caused him to be censured, along with Prokofiev and Shostakovich (Khachaturian's teacher...
...could have been said very easily in a short, snappy article for Politics Today. Instead, Bakshian spends 250 pages telling us about the race, the candidates, and, most of all, himself. The problem, in short, is the book demands the "armed neutrality" that Bakshian said he started with, and Aram Bakshian is a screaming Republican. His resume reads like What's What in GOP boners in the last ten years. From 1971 to 1972, special assistant to then chairman of the Republican National Committee, Bob Dole. In June of 1972, he joined the White House, four days before the Watergate...
This election year is already depressing enough without books like this. But we can all be thankful at least for one thing: Aram Bakshian, Jr. isn't running for president...