Word: horning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall from grace, like Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart. Mark Twain once said that a man, if he's any good, never gets over being a boy. We like men in whom we can see the vestiges of the boy. You can still make out the flirtatious teenage horn player in Bill Clinton. Newt Gingrich--who last week deemed Clinton an "illegal man"--despite his love of dinosaurs, probably seemed like a mini-adult even when he was in short pants...
...Dara Horn '99 is a literature concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...this produced some memorable players. Look around. There's Lenin arriving at the Finland Station and Gandhi marching to the sea to make salt. Winston Churchill with his cigar, Louis Armstrong with his horn, Charlie Chaplin with his cane. Rosa Parks staying seated on her bus and a kid standing in front of a tank near Tiananmen Square. Einstein is in his study, and the Beatles are on The Ed Sullivan Show...
...Dara Horn '99 is a literature concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...string players, and Tipler was jumping around, leaning left, leaning right, trying to urge the orchestra on as a coach, asking for more force. Quite humorously, in the last movement's finale, a page turn set up the last section into a grand timpani role and a horn declaration joined with the strings to end a great concert...