Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These are the men of Harvard--all here for an education, yet quite distinct in their stress of the academic, social, or athletic life...
...athlete at Harvard may be part of a distinct group of students, but he should not be accepted or considered as part of an inferior group of students. All kinds of awards, scholarships, and statistics could serve as witnesses in this argument. The first four class Marshals last year, for example--Charlie Ravenel, Newell Flather, Tom Blodgett, and Bruce MacIntyre--are all outstanding personalities who participated in athletics...
...Republicans have a distinct advantage in the campaign because corruption issues will embarrass the Democrats, Howe declared. He called Peabody "the only opportunity to vote for a force free of the corruption of the Democratic party...
Moscow, she observed, "isn't as sophisticated a city as, say, Leningrad, and I noticed that people wouldn't even applaud for a work by Bach." According to Pianist Starr, the jury distinguished "three distinct 'schools' of piano playing: American, French and Russian. And the thing that seemed to set the Americans apart was what they called 'overemotionalism...
...Original Suite, but I don't know who he thought he was kidding even then. Peter Mennin likewise sticks by an outworn style of folksy nostalgia in his 1951 Canzona. Vaughan Williams' Toccata Martiale, on the other hand, succeeds because his use of national flavor is tied to a distinct personal idiom, and the ensemble fortunately rallied its coordination for the piece. It did so as well for William Bergsma's March with Trumpets, a work which at least in places has a style...