Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from England). Elmore Jones played slide guitar. This means that he used a special open string tuning in D or G, with a metal ring of some kind on his little finger. Recently an English group led by Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac, have recorded albums in which they do exact copies of some of James' greatest songs. Also, Mike Bloomfield did some excellent slide guitar work on the first Butterfield album and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones used it on "King Bee." But these are all only weak imitations...
...that Pushkin's reputation for greatness stems in part from his historical significance. Much Russian writing of his age cloaked itself affectedly in secondhand French elegance. In such superb tales as The Queen of Spades and The Captain's Daughter, Pushkin fashioned a new native style-spare, exact, free of rhetorical flourish-which set the tone for the epic prose era that was to follow, from Gogol to Chekhov. In rich, full-blooded dramas like Boris Gudunov, he helped to free the Russian stage from its prim, Racine-engendered formalities. Poems like Ruslan and Liudmila, Memory...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government and a member of the Student Faculty Advisory Council (SFAC), will present the motion, which the SFAC passed on Jan. 16. Some 57 Harvard students were placed on probation after the Paine Hall demonstration, but the exact number of those who are on scholarship has not been officially announced...
Applications from black students have also increased, Smith indicated. "This is just my personal feeling," he said. "We don't have any exact figures on this." Smith attributed the increase to recruiting by Harvard alumni groups and to efforts by Harvard undergraduates--both black and white--in a program begun this fall...
...call "value judgments." I am also aware of the dangerous consequences of acting on such judgments, and if we ever reach such a juncture I would fully expect to be repressed by the majority I was fighting against. Nevertheless, granting the existence of evil in the world (though its exact location may be a subject of dispute) and granting that most of us haven't learned the lesson "resist not evil," I do not see how such judgments, such actions, and such consequences can be avoided. Sitting quietly in a room has itself become a political act of almost unimaginable...