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Hoelting says she went through college not really having formal music training, just learning how to play the guitar, “I want to bring music back into my life,” Hoelting says. “Play a chord,” Taylor barks. “Let’s start making music sound good.” His main prescription is to accept a slow pace of mastery and not to force a sing-along if panic ensues...
DOES THAT CHORD PROGRESSION WORK AS A FOLK SONG...
...exhibit an intangible bond to Lowry and her books. Tatar, who invited Lowry to her “Fairy Tales” class, speculates as to why readers feel so tied to Lowry’s books, “Lowry is certainly an author who has struck a chord with readers because her books have a way of addressing childhood fears by creating monsters but then she writes in tough, resilient kids who can deal with those monsters,” Tatar says...
...complicity in Stalinist horror is probing, subtle. "Like many others," Taubman writes, "Khrushchev thought he was building a new socialist society, a glorious end that justified even the harshest means." So he "practiced deception and self-deception. He never fully owned up to his complicity." Touching a chillingly familiar chord, Taubman explains, "His complicity in great crimes ... was tied to nothing less than his own sense of self-worth, to his growing feeling of dignity, to the invigorating, intoxicating conviction that Stalin, a man he came almost to worship, admired him in return...
Lewis, despite going on to a career in academia himself after graduating from Harvard, always recognized that his alma mater needed to keep students involved outside of the classroom as well as within it. Striking a chord that many undergraduates will recognize, Lewis warned Kirby in his Feb. 24 letter, “Extracurricular activities are, if nothing else, stress-relieving; I suspect that if the time students now spend on extracurriculars were spent instead in the libraries, we would have an even more serious mental health problem than...