Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scoreline read 5-4 in favor of Harvard (19-4-4, 16-2-4 ECAC), and for all the agony that St. Lawrence (10-20-0, 8-14-0) must have felt on the way to its dressing room, the sheer joy on the faces of the Crimson seemed to justify every...
...chest, I can get back to describing the album(s): reference points for Peter's style are very stripped-down John Cale records and Wire circa 1980--there are no better-known reference points-- and, for Graeme's some combination of Richard Thompson, Lou Read and Joy Division's Ian Curtis. But none of these name droppings will give you the offbeat, beaten-down flavor of tension that's condensed across this record like a thick spring for: in the solo acoustic guitar lines of Graeme's "The Men by the Pool," or in his lyrics--"Dressed in rags made...
...appeal to the pent up and repressed, as well as to the changes that the advent of sound recording brought to the art. With the commencement of Texaco's Saturday broadcasts from the Met and the massive sales of opera recordings, opera was brought into the home, to the joy of the reclusive and antisocial...
...that this was a historical moment and that the war -- so they say -- is coming to an end. "Oh that," he replied. "I heard about that. I'll buy five kegs of beer tomorrow and call 50 of our friends, and we'll all get good and smashed from joy. But forget that for now. Let me tell you about this fountain I saw once a long time ago in Rome. I'm almost sure we could put . something like that up in Sarajevo, over by the cathedral, because it would really look super there." And then we continued talking...
...fact, not seeing it made me hungry for another victory over the Russians. I wanted to fully appreciate the joy of beating them...