Word: joel
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...former professor at both the FAS biology department and SPH, Joel E. Cohen ’65 said that Harvard’s laissez-faire attitude towards its graduate schools has in the past stood in the way of concerted University-wide efforts...
...Billy Joel confessed, “It’s still rock ‘n’ roll to me,” and this year, more than any other, I finally understand how rock surpasses so many other genres of music in its ability to grab a listener, hold them transfixed and then fling them away completely changed. The Strokes inflect all their songs with the same disaffected, frustrated tone, and The Raveonettes use the same three chords in every noirish number they perform, yet the final product of both bands is undoubtedly raw rock music. Strip away...
...Grammy Awards, Clive Davis will put on a tuxedo, tap a microphone and introduce guests at his annual pre-Grammy party to the best new artist--of 2004. "His name," Davis confides in advance, "is Gavin DeGraw. He's a piano player, a songwriter. A lot like Billy Joel or Elton John, but with the soul of maybe a Joe Jackson. He's gonna be a star...
...huge epic poems and verse diatribes were pouring forth - more than ninety in the 1790s alone. Slavery was taken on by the first generation of self-consciously American poets, among them Joel Barlow, David Humphreys, Timothy Dwight, and Philip Freneau, all of whom saw it as anathema to America's future. In 1778 Barlow predicted that with American independence, "Afric's unhappy children, now no more / Shall feel the cruel chains they felt before." A few years later Freneau felt haunted by the continuing presence of slaves: "Half hell is in their song / And from the silent thought? - 'You have...
...year-old guest at the Catskills resort hotel went on a drunken joyride with a Honduran hotel worker and never returned. Alberto Martinez, then 23, plowed a purloined Olympic Hotel car into a tree, killing youthful passenger Joel Klein. Charged with criminally negligent homicide, Martinez jumped bail and vanished. Two weeks ago he was run to ground - by an FBI computer...