Word: harped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...simple, the anti-Dukies try to explain. Nobody likes a winner these days. Nobody likes a team that seems to have it too easy. We harp against the New York Yankees as we once railed against the San Francisco 49ers. And for years we've focused our negative energies on Duke...
...this case, entertainment-based strategies have failed to draw masses of youth wholeheartedly into the political game. As a result, both the media and politicians have assumed a moralistic bent, exhorting young people about the power of one vote. The electoral crisis in Florida provided an excellent opportunity to harp on the importance of one vote. "Your vote can turn the tide of an election!" screamed the Gore e-mail service, continually alluding to the 1960 election in which John F. Kennedy edged Richard M. Nixon with an average of one vote per precinct nationwide. People must now take...
...ivory, ebony, mother of pearl and tortoiseshell, and most have intricately carved rosettas in their centers. It was fascinating to see one made by Stradivarius; the famous violin-maker also had a wonderful sense for the guitar. The second gallery has novelties like a Dali-esque double guitar and harp guitars, but most of the instruments are less interesting to look at. The commentaries and the main angle of the room focus on the history of the instrument and the way in which it entered American mainstream music. The third gallery, a paean to the electric guitar, is dark except...
...Gore people must harp on the idea - as Bill Daley has already attempted to do - that the court's decision is about justice and small-"d" democracy, and not about a court with an ideological axe to grind. They must also attempt to persuade the public that manual recounts clarify rather than muddy the vote, and that they are the tried-and-true method of protecting voter intent...
...Oval Room and the adjoining room on the second floor may have spawned the most intimate and exotic stories. Adams gave that first public reception in that Oval Room, and it became Andrew Jackson's family parlor. First Lady Abigail Fillmore moved in her piano and her daughter's harp. When Congress anted up $2,000 for books, she established the first White House Library...