Word: harped
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...grew up in Hiroshima, the eldest daughter in a family of five. She took lessons on the harp and in folk dance and ballet. "I loved to dance. My dancing made my parents happy." Like all Japanese young women at that time, Numata anticipated a life of marriage and children, and she was engaged to marry a soldier. The wedding was planned for some time shortly after Aug. 8, 1945, when her fiancé was expected home on leave...
Musically, the play fared slightly better. Though Mark P. Musico ’07 largely lived up to his name in his music direction, though the accompaniment, like the performances onstage, was uneven. In particular, the strings, with the exception of the synthesized harp, did a strikingly poor job, giving some of the orchestral moments a lurching, funeral cadence distinctly reminiscent of Charles Ives’s more dissonant work...
...students and faculty. And no one is looking for a pardon. Yet, while Norwood’s examples are certainly disgraceful, they are not uncommon to the interwar period, when many American institutions struggled with their relationships with pre-war Germany. The fact that Norwood has chosen to harp on Harvard alone makes his paper smack of opportunism, not the qualities of an honest scholarly attempt to provide accurate historical perspective...
...case thus far. In fact, further studies should be conducted to confirm the exact risks of these antidepressants, as well as their efficacy, which has come under fire as of late. What is missing, though, is perspective, and with it calm and specific deliberation. It is only disruptive to harp on the dangers of antidepressants when they have mended—saved—innumerable lives in the past. Nor is it constructive in any way to sloppily cover all SSRIs under one homogeneous red flag. Factors vary from one SSRI to the next, and have direct bearing...
...HOGON: A fixture on the Bamako circuit for over a decade, Le Hogon, tel: (223) 223 0760, is managed by the amiable Moussa Yaffa, a DJ who mixes techno with the kora, or traditional harp. The club's best performers include Toumani Diabate, considered the world's greatest kora player, and the 22-piece Symmetric Orchestra, whose complex, swirling melodies are produced by the balaphon (a West African xylophone), djembe, kora and guitars...