Word: harped
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Instead of a trumpet, a harp weakens "Linda Paloma." Arthurt Gerst, the Liberace of the harp, turns this song into an appropriate theme for "The Edge of Night." Browne's voice also falters on this track, when he sings about his "Mexican dove." Usually, his vocals are sincere if methodical; he's more a hoe tilling the soil than a barreling steamroller. But his range is severely limited, and it shows here as his voice cracks reaching for a high note. Still, Browne's decision to stray his Southern California roots to try a Mexican ballad demonstrates a willingness...
...speech by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Haitian leader of a slave rebellion, and later won the Walt Whitman International Media Competition for selections from The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He often compares himself to a jazz musician, stripping down everything to the soul. "I used to blow a blues harp and beat a tambourine, but now my body is my only instrument," he says. Blue often works barefoot, so that, as he puts it, "my toes can sing...
Most post-season analyses harp on several common elements. A young player did not perform up to potential, the reliable veteran came up lame, it was a cold spring training, the momentum was missing, and of course, the manager did not establish a good rapport with his players. This formula will work for a Red Sox post-mortem and is guaranteed to make you a hit at any cocktail party...
...sure, the picture is not altogether a happy one. Rates of inflation and unemployment, though declining, will remain high by all historic standards. In the fall political campaign, Republicans will harp on how rapidly production, inflation and unemployment are improving; Democrats will bitterly complain that all are still far from anything that could be touted as full prosperity. Says Arthur Okun, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution: "You'll think they are talking about two different countries-and they'll both be right...
...culmination of a year's toil that through performance should prove this department is interested in doing more than analyzing notes in a score. Titles of the pieces range from the traditional trio for clarinet, violin and piano to one called "Tuesdays are always yellow, aren't they?" for harp and it's-anyone's-guess-what-else. Although Harvard does not have the most illustrious name as far as graduate music schools go the composition professors are outstanding and their students are a highly select and qualified crew...