Word: harpe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WHETHER the research is ill-done or well, one problem facing any account of Eric Blair's development is that Orwell has already done it, and with more style, Modern critics can harp endlessly on the Blair-Orwell dichotomy, inflating it to the point of benign schizophrenia in a way that Orwell himself could not have done but they won reach the point of diminishing returns...
...majority of the small, poor countries, which now account for 97 of the General Assembly's 132 votes, harp on these themes-mainly because the U.N. is the only place in the world where they can make themselves heard, and also because these issues are the only ones on which the Third World nations tend to agree. This year the U.S. was the only member to vote against and finally abstain from the main disarmament resolution. The proposal was unexceptional, merely calling for a committee to study the possibility of holding a general disarmament conference, but the U.S. regarded...
James Cotton. This man taught Paul Butterfield every single thing he knows about playing harp: Cotton learned from Sonny Boy Williamson, and he was the best. James Cotton runs the best South Side Chicago blues band operating, hard drinking, stingy-brimmed, bad whiskey and worse women city blues. It's cleansing
...Mehta was in full control, wielding a very precise energy over the orchestra. The final section involves a sudden shift, from an extremely loud fortissimo to a barely audible pianissimo--and Mehta employed finger-tip control in the transition. Ending the work was a mysterious piano, celeste, and harp trio, and the audience's reaction, which was hardly overwhelming, was also a bit baffled...
...separate body from the rest of the show. With "Losin' Hand," he finally got the band into a groove they could manage, and then raced them through "CC Rider," "Mystery Train," and an encore of "You've Got All the Money," that was nearly worth the whole set. His harp work was stunning, and very much the focal point over the band's easy chording. Butterfield learned to play harp from the Chicago masters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, and James Cotton especially. He's mastered their techniques, and added his own ideas and his strong sense of taste, that...