Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certainly looks like something has changed. But the community fools itself to think that the University suddenly has showed its trump card. It is misleading to think that administrators ordered the arrests--after a decade and a half of abstention--as part of some calculated shift in the grand design of Harvard's policy toward dissent...
Cray, 33, heard Clapton before he had completed his classical blues curriculum, and the music on his fifth and newest album, Strong Persuader, a collaboration among several songwriters, has the cool and sexy finesse of prime Eric, even as it does the grand masters proud. "I try to keep my ears open to all kinds of things," Cray says, and that receptivity is now paying off. His guitar playing, as precise as a laser beam, and the tormented romanticism of his songs have helped land a major-label record deal and a heavy dose of attention...
...anymore. I slowed down. It doesn't do anything but get you in a lot of trouble." Watch Cray in performance and it is easy enough to see how he could still get in harm's way. He has a voice that sounds as if he gargles with Old Grand-Dad and a sly smile that looks like an open invitation. The grin does not come easy, but upon arrival it is ! bright enough to beam ships through a fog. All that fits nicely. The blues, after all, have always been music about trouble that is only going...
...belief that humans have a cognitive faculty which allows for reason independent of experience (it does not simply refer to the process of "thinking logically") and that empiricism refers to the belief that all ideas are derived from sensory perceptions? How many users know the difference between a regular grand jury and a grand jury? And how many of us know enough about German literature to use sturm und drang correctly? Or about the Peloponnesian War which inspired some historian to coin Pyrrhic victory, to make a golden apple of this idiom, rather than dilute its meaning every time...
Since its grand opening 20 months ago, the Charles Square shopping complex has stumbled over some rough obstacles, some of which are still being smoothed out: four shops have moved out; the mall is situated out of the Harvard Square traffic flow, and some perceive it as overpriced for the college market...