Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Schapers share her rage. "We were betrayed by the U.S. Army, and I will feel that way for the rest of my life," Arthur Schaper says. "These people are supposed to follow certain standards, instead of hiding behind their uniforms." Or using them as brass-buttoned date bait...
...prime-time coverage? Or could Izzi, a writer known to be fanatical about research, have been trying to find out how it felt to dangle by the neck outside an office window? In his pockets, besides a can of Mace, several hundred dollars in cash and a set of brass knuckles, were three computer disks. It has been reported that although the disks don't add up to a book and are unlikely to be published, they describe a scene almost exactly like that of the author's death--right down to the pistol and the holed wall--in which...
...interpretation of the overture highlighted the piece's ambitious nature and theatrical potential through passionate dynamic swells. However, due perhaps to the acoustics in Sanders Theatre, the forte sections of the piece seemed excessively loud, and a few intonation problems in the brass section were prominent in the overture's soft sections...
...color barrier, it was not baseball who welcomed Robinson with open arms. I get the impression that the recent celebrations of Robinson's remarkable feat tend to have the look-how-we-let-Jackie-Robinson-integrate-baseball feel to it. While there were some men like Rickey, the ruling brass of baseball did not look to kindly on having a black player in the majors. Robinson's class and integrity was enough to gain the respect of some of the most stubborn racists. Baseball's--and Nike's--present preoccupation with selling Robinson's image tends to place the emphasis...
...better. The concert opened with the Sunday Jazz Band, who performed a sophisticated arrangement by longtime Harvard Jazz Band collaborator Jeff Friedman of the Thelonious Monk tune "Brilliant Corners." The Monday Band then took to the stage with a rousing performance of "Take The 'A' Train," replete with mean brass and take-no-prisoners attitude. The band played six more tunes, including two more in the Ellington/Strayhorn vein, "Star-Crossed Lovers" and "Cottontail," Wardell Gray's "Twisted," Charles Mingus' "Fables of Faubus" and two premieres...