Word: harped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...piece for the orchestra is for April, and it's called `101,'" he says. "It's going to use 101 players--strings, brass, woodwind, harp, piano and percussion...
...what I did at Yale," he says. "I love the place, I was extremely happy there, and I was thrilled to have some control over its continuing excellence and well-being." Still, if stories about him must be written, he would like to see a few that do not harp on his exotic past, drop names such as Dante or Machiavelli or refer to him as the Renaissance man. "I $ suppose where I came from can't be ignored," he admits. "But I am less struck by the anomaly of moving from there to here than others seem...
...Greater London Council. Livingstone turned the council, responsible for such matters as public transit, garbage collection and social welfare projects, into the biggest-spending local government Britain had ever seen. He attracted headlines by doling out tax funds to every group imaginable, including a gay community center, a Welsh harp society, a graffiti workshop and an organization called Babies Against the Bomb. The council declared London a nuclear-free zone, earning plaudits from the Kremlin...
...with an interrelated story line, as well as a 30-minute documentary calculated to let a couple of generations catch up on what they missed the first time around. Does the man who made this splendid new record, the man who wrote The Weight and Daniel and the Sacred Harp and set his fingers around some of rock's best guitar, really need an introduction? Business realities suggest that he might, but, in truth, even if you had never met him or heard him before, you would know Robbie Robertson in an instant. Who else is gonna bring...
...strange to harp back to those sunny spring days when protesters acted on their sympathy with the plight of Black South Africans by sitting in their mock shanties. It is astoudning how quickly such allegedly selfless moralists can forget about the bloodshed and oppression that continues there...