Word: dexterousness
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Last year escorts at brown did over 1,000 walks while the university' shuttle and vehicle escort services gave 38,000 rides last year, according to Brown's Associate Director of Public Safety Mary-Ann G. Dexter...
...stopped playing, the bottom fell out of the music." He sold shoes and played country bass to get a stake that would send him to Los Angeles to study jazz at a conservatory. He dropped out after a single - semester. By then he was jamming with Art Pepper and Dexter Gordon. When he met up with Coleman at a club in Hollywood, he was primed for takeoff. "The traditional way of improvising in jazz is on the chord structure," he says. "But sometimes I would want to improvise on the inspiration, the feeling rather than the chords. And that...
...lifelong fan, I keep waiting for the comic heroine of The Philadelphia Story to enter. Wouldn't Tracy Lord have chastened Dexter with a blithe reprimand and moved on? If not humor, what about understanding and empathy? But these, the critics found, were the very qualities she had trouble conveying, which limited her to light comedies and, in later years, to playing starchy, irascible eccentrics. Hepburn was dogged for years by Dorothy Parker's famous put-down of her performance in the Broadway play The Lake: "Katharine Hepburn runs the gamut of emotion from A to B." If her parents...
...made plowing an art form and were competing in county fairs. Herb Plambeck, an enterprising farm reporter and colleague of Ronald Reagan's at Des Moines' station WHO, brought the contestants together in a national match that thrust plowing into power politics. In 1948 Harry Truman headed for Dexter, Iowa, where 100,000 people had come to witness the meet. Truman gave the 80th Congress hell, delightedly kicked some newly turned clods of earth as if they were Republicans, and came away with a huge grin, convinced that the reception he got from the dirt farmers meant he would beat...
MOST OF MY FOUR YEARS at Harvard have been spent along the Canaday-Sever-Lemont-Crimson-Quincy axis, so I've probably walked in and out of the Yard through Dexter Gate 1000 times. Everyone knows the Charles Eliot inscription on the way in--"Enter to Grow in Wisdom"--but I'd bet I'm one of a handful of Harvard students who have memorized the inscription above the exit--"Depart to Serve Better Thy Country And Thy Kind...