Word: finer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the early jazz flourish Harvard University revealed a sort of tin ear for syncopated sound. Even with the music inundating Boston, one of America's finer jazz towns, Harvard had failed to pick up the beat. It failed, that is, until University band director Tom Everett organized the Harvard jazz band three years ago. Since its inception, the band has provided a home for lonesome jazz men and big band enthusiasts. Within the last year it has shown admirable skill on the local mixer circuit, and at occasional concerts for other schools...
...Inside tall narrow stairs twist back up around a wide chimney. The room is hot and is smoky and full of that sweet sickening smell--like burning beans--peculiar to dirty houses with wood stoves. The plaster is cracking off the walls, revealing in places an old wallpaper from finer days, repeating and repeating a magnolia bordered portrait of your standard columned mansion house, through which irony we may fade...
...down the vile names that Lincoln was called, pointed out how Nixon's enemies were abusing him, then said, "But all they do is shame America ... through it all, our President stands steadfast." Writing in the New York Times, Franklin R. Gannon, a presidential aide, drew even finer lines. "Even the casual reader wary of undue comparisons will be struck by some of the pertinent and poignant political similarities between Mr. Lincoln's presidency and President Nixon's current troubles." Then Gannon declared that Nixon, by his "resolute conduct so far," had already earned some...
...many of his later books, Hanley has shown a finer hand without sacrificing power, particularly in The Closed Harbor (1953), the story of a sea captain who haunts the docks after losing his ship, and in Another World (1972), in which sexual passion turns the collar of a middle-aged cleric. Through the years, Hanley's lasting concern with life's leftovers and outcasts has changed only in style. The line between A Woman in the Sky and Men in Darkness (1931) is direct. "Obliterate yourself...
...site plan will convince even the most skeptical that the court, or mini-yard, formed by Canaday's volumes is virtually identical in size and configuration to the other freshman courts (like the one between Matthews and Strauss). But when the view is focused to the personal scale, the finer level of physical treatment and sensory perception, there are some surprises. Because the buildings will have many entries, circulation lines are ambiguous. To "solve" the problem, the designers have chosen to pave most of the court. The only such precedent within the Yard is the area in front of Lehman...