Word: bards
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Singer-songwriters are as old as literature itself. Before any poem was committed to paper, it was the object of the bard, the oral poet, who, accompanied by instrumentation, entertained willing audiences. A little before the turn of the first millennium B.C., the mysterious Homer gave birth to Western literature with song as his medium. For many years thereafter it was unthinkable to hear poetry without accompanying music...
...week, the combined boycotts could get the international support they need to be effective against transnational corporations such as Coca-Cola. Coke contracts have come under fire at Columbia, NYU, University of Vermont and University of California, Berkeley to name a few, and contracts have already been terminated at Bard College, Lake Forest College and at bars and colleges in Ireland. So far, Harvard’s involvement has been limited to bringing Colombian workers to campus to speak about the repression but Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04, a member of United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS...
...ACID representative Joel Bard said he thought the low turn-out was a sign that people were satisfied with the agreement and felt any concerns had already been addressed at previous meetings...
...take the decision of people not to come as a sign that they agree,” Bard said...
...take the decision of people not to come as a sign that they agree,” Bard said...