Word: harped
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BOSTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY. The musical group will perform Debussy’s Sonata No. 3 for flute, viola, and harp; Zwilich’s Passages (1981); and Brahms’ Piano Trio in B Major. Sunday, Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $25-$42, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Student rush $5, begins at 6:30 on the day of concert. Sanders Theater...
...Hart collaborated once more: five new songs for a revival of their 1927 hit "A Connecticut Yankee." The last lyric Hart wrote was for "To Keep My Love Alive," sung by a noble lady of who tires easily of men - 15 husbands, 15 early funerals. "Sir Philip played the harp; I cussed the thing./ I crowned him with his harp to bust the thing./ And now he plays where harps are just the thing,/ To keep my love alive." Hart's blithe wickedness is indebted to Cole Porter's "list" songs like "You're the Top" (or was Hart there...
Most people think their children are angels, at least some of the time. But Elizabeth Smart fits the storybook image better than many. She's a good student and athlete. Tall and willowy, she had played harp at her grandfather's funeral two days before she disappeared. She favors pale blue. Her cousin has heard her say idiot once. On the surface, there was no reason she should have been singled out by anyone...
...Look at the PR efforts of the rival "brand" - al Qaeda. Bin Laden's propaganda screeds are almost always built around the plight of ordinary Palestinians and Iraqis, for whose suffering most of the Muslim world holds the U.S. at least partly responsible. Bin Laden also loves to harp on U.S. support for corrupt and authoritarian regimes in the Arab world. It's a cynical ad campaign, of course. Bin Laden has done nothing to help either the Palestinians or the Iraqis, and he's nothing if not another high-born authoritarian himself. But think of it as negative advertising...
Some will ask why its useful to harp on two paragraphs that seem largely inconsistent with more than 200 pages of writing. Why pick apart some 20 lines of kitsch when there is more substantive analysis elsewhere? As children of the PC, love-people-for-what’s-on-the-inside era, how can we commit the egregious act of actually judging a book by its cover...