Word: distinctives
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...deliverance from the sinfulness of slavetrading. Another former slave dealer, James Stanfield, composed an epic of several hundred lines entitled "The Guinea Voyage" (1789), in part of which he depicted the birth of a baby in the wretched squalor of the slave decks. (Art and life were not so distinct: the black poet Ignatius Sancho, who later became a figure in literary London, was born aboard a slave ship en route from Africa to the Spanish West Indies in 1729.) In 1805 the Irish immigrant and repentant slaver Thomas Branagan published two huge epic poems against slavery, including the autobiographical...
...just as common on the streets of Dusseldorf or Damascus. The Administration has always worried that public support for a war--especially one waged without backing from a broad international coalition--was soft. To gain maximum support, the Administration still needs to sell the case for action to two distinct constituencies--first, ordinary Americans, and second, the diplomats who gather in the Security Council. And that is why, when it wanted to make the case last week that Saddam is a danger to safety and security everywhere, it turned to the man Americans and the world trust more than...
...York City. The reverential and extremely impressive character of the Russian music, little known to people of other countries, adds its glories to the other dramatic splendors of the Russian orthodox service. Without the Russian deep basses, the religious music of Russia cannot be given. Their combination with the distinct style of the Russian boys gives a strange intensive force and unfamiliar devotional intensity to religious music. In the perfection of its ensemble production, the Russian Cathedral Choir stands alone among similar choirs outside of Russia...
Project instigator Matthew J. Corriel ’05 said that the group wanted to put the perfomers’ distinct media “together on the same plane of importance...
Harvard also needs to discover the joys of T-ball and other sorority sports more generally. I had the distinct pleasure of attending a sorority T-ball tournament during my stay in Tallahassee. While the proceeds of the event were given to charity, I assure you that the true beneficiaries were the spectators. The fire of competition that can be achieved only when two sororities square head-to-head on the (T-ball) field of battle seemed to speak to every red-blooded fraternity brother in attendance. The image of glory that is the leaping and the bounding of young...