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When Ray Odierno took over the top military post in Iraq from General David Petraeus in September, there was a lot of hand-wringing among folk at defense think tanks in Washington worried that he was the wrong man for the job. They pointed to Odierno's reputation from his first tour in Iraq, in 2003, as a heavy-handed division commander who had neither a grasp of the subtleties of fighting an insurgency nor the political acumen to sell his ideas back home. Some correspondents who covered Iraq in the months after the fall of Saddam Hussein also came...
...quaking beneath his t-shirt, made the whole thing real.Travierso can also sing. As the Balladeer, he played a central role in executing Sondheim’s gorgeous score. “Assassins” is riddled with bits of American musical history, from the broad, open harmonies of folk to gospel’s ecstatic fervor. Even Sousa marches get their moments. In songs like “The Ballad of Booth” and (especially) “The Ballad of Czolgosz,” you could hear the country’s musical heritage talking to itself...
Matthew W. Smith, the manager of Club Passim, said he sees Pauley as a dynamic musician whose song writing “keeps on getting sharper and sharper.” “She sells out Passim pretty easily,” he said, describing Pauley as a folk-based act with a rock sensibility. “She can pull it off with or without a band. When she’s solo, it’s just as powerful...
...being pro-active and so mature,” says Liz J. Powers ’10, one of the student artists featured in the exhibit. Her painting, “New Power,” conveys the rising optimism of women voters with bright colors in a simple folk style. Castro Samayoa hoped to provide a forum for such creativity in organizing the exhibition. He says that at Harvard, “People are thinking and engaging with voting. People are voicing their opinions in classes and dining halls. We wanted to give another venue for people to express...
...audience, then about the ideal acoustics and intimidating decor of Sanders Theatre. Every digression or anecdote evoked a strange and enigmatic vision of the man and the movement he symbolizes. The strain of music that Kottke helped make famous—a hybrid of blues, folk, country, and bluegrass traditions known as “American Primitive”—was pioneered by John Fahey, an eccentric and reclusive guitar composer. Fahey’s prolific and varied catalog—including “Blind Joe Death,” “The Yellow Princess...