Word: impromptu
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...explain that in absence of That Special Someone (whose acquaintance my parents seem to seek more earnestly than I) life here at Harvard has been a series of endless movies, impromptu parties, hyped conviviality and 98 proof highs? Not that I mean to complain. For the most, it's been fun--the conversation sometimes brittle, sometimes stoned, full of the gossip of relentlessly recycled relationships as Patti's seen first with Dan then with Bob before returning with mathematical certitude to take up with Dan once again, as the earth lurches away from the sun and, consciously...
FRIDAY EVENING the cast works on rough harmonies while the last colored gels are put over the lights. Patty sings 'Old Folks' again and again while the others work on blending the background. Several instrumentalists start giving impromptu voice lessons; Tom reiterates that they have to keep the rhythms clear. At 9:30 the Phoenix and Independent reviewers are to arrive...
...berries and sugar known as agutuk, or Eskimo ice cream. Then, at the airport, they were delayed for three hours while their plane's engines were warmed back to life. Concertmaster Henry Siegl took out his violin. While Katims conducted with a swizzle stick, Siegl played an impromptu recital of pop songs, Irish jigs and gypsy music...
Whew, what a weekend. Wolfing down home-cooked food for four days, and watching an interesting championship swimming meet, I had the added bonus of participating in an impromptu one-man auto thrill show...
...students to achieve racial balance in the city's predominantly white (68%) school system. When the schools opened in September, six members of the Ku Klux Klan were arrested for fire-bombing Pontiac school buses; militant white mothers chained themselves to buses and enrolled their children in impromptu neighborhood "freedom schools...