Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Progressive country music is marked by a strong rhythm section, especially a driving bass line more rock-and-roll than country. It generally features a prominent lead electric guitar--a distinct break from the older country tradition where the guitar work often consisted of two guys thumping away on six-string acoustics, both playing rhythm. Progressive country is also characterized by its willingness to use the keyboard instruments scorned by older country music. The movement owes its origins to the music of Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams, with a more than perfunctory nod in the direction of Bob Wills...
...reasons. And the parents' occupations and attitudes have a lot to do with determining how large a does of the country's culture they receive. In their conversation, Harvard students who have lived abroad referred to each other by their parents' occupations; a "foreign service kid" was distinct from an "oil kid" or from a "military kid." But no matter where they went or how they got there, most expressed a more positive view of the American life abroad then at home...
Home-grown high school stars Hughes and Trainor's blades have hit the Causeway Street ice many times before, and both consider that a distinct advantage. Hughes, the Crimson's top point scorer during the season, says that "You' get used to the Garden. Your parents, friends and people that have followed you during your career are all there. It's a comfortable feeling...
...first time, there is a distinct possibility that Harvard could be leading after the first day of competition since the Crimson is particularly strong in that day's events (50 free, 500 free, 200 individual medley, one-meter diving and the 400 medley relay...
Forseeing that seven distinct task forces studying seven artifically divided areas would inevitably result in some overlap, Rosovsky also created a coordinating committee that he chairs. The panel includes all of the task force chairmen, President Bok and Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty. While the monthly meetings of the panel are now intended to prevent individual task forces from "barking up the wrong tree," according to one administrator, ultimately, the committee will attempt to synthesize the task forces' recommendations. Rosovsky stresses that the committee will work by consensus. "It's not a matter...