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Drew, I’m a disc jockey, and you’re a musician. I try to put together the best mélange, bringing together music of a similar aesthetic with unexpected twists and turns to recreate a complex and distinct feel. You try to write your own songs to produce an album of a distinct mood and feel...
...also do this!” he added, spinning to make a lewd gesture at his on-stage critics and mouth a distinct “fuck...
...original Hasty Pudding Club gives its name to two distinct entities today, Hasty Pudding Theatricals (the nation’s oldest theatrical troupe) and Hasty Pudding Club (Harvard’s oldest social organization). The Pudding was conceived in 1795 to “cultivate the social affections and cherish the feelings of friendship and patriotism,” according to its charter...
It’s good to remember that the reason our Houses are not just dormitories is that they started out life as quite distinct entities. Modeled on English colleges, they featured professors who resided within the colleges and dined in the dining halls. Pertile points out that “the ancient model of professor… was single and dedicated almost entirely to the College and its students. He is very rare, almost non-existent [now].” Of course, with changes in professorial life (and especially in the expectations that weigh upon them: more research, less...
During Garvey’s heyday in the early 20th century, people believed that races were biologically and culturally distinct entities and that the Negro race was inferior to all other races. he accepted the racial essentialism of his times but unflinchingly took on any and all claims of racial inferiority, calling on all blacks worldwide to dedicate themselves to uplifting their race. This was Garvey’s greatest genius: identifying the similarities between the struggles of the black people on different continents and unifying them in opposition to their common foe of racial oppression...