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The answer, of course, is e) all of the above. Sir Thomas More is one of those ubiquitous figures in history who defies easy description. He's one of those wonderful history I.D.'s that lends itself to improvisation.

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: More Than a History Lecture | 3/17/1989 | See Source »

As participants in the exchange are discovering, the Soviet and American college systems are a less than perfect fit. Soviet students specialize much more during their five college years than Americans do in their four, and they take a rigidly prescribed sequence of courses. U.S. exchange students may therefore be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: But Where Are Their Chaperones? | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Charlie Parker could not resist temptation. Bad ones (drugs, alcohol, women who were not his wife) and good ones (the improvisation no one had ever dared, around the chord progressions few had ever heard) were all the same to him, something he had to try. Bird, the movie based on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: More Than One Note at a Time BIRD Directed | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Finally, justifiably famous alum Braden, who took time out of his no doubt busy schedule of playing sax behind world-famous jazz artists, got to strut his stuff on Miles Davis' "Seven Steps to Heaven." After his usual humorous sermonette on the nature of jazz improvisation, and the explanation "I...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Nourishment for Hungry Ears | 2/16/1988 | See Source »

This was just one example of the powers of improvisation the band as a whole possesses. When Sting and company are at their best, they don't just play music, they create it.

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Bees In The Garden | 2/12/1988 | See Source »

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