Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...energy spent to expand the boundaries of jazz. "Oh, yes, I'm tired," Dale croaks in his slow, reedy tones. "Of everything except the music." Francis (Francois Cluzet), a commercial illustrator who worships Turner's artistry, wants to change that. The mousy Frenchman is thrilled to be spoken to, listened to, used by his idol. He will manage Turner's life and finances, fight to free Turner from the embrace of asylums, badger his ex-wife for money to support the musician, leave his young daughter at home alone till dawn so he can listen to an old master...
...snorts that make a cowboy take a deep seat on frosty mornings. "A horse has a mind," Rays says, watching the colt. "He gets scared and bold, sure and unsure, sick and well. He says, 'Maybe. I don't know. All right . . .' and too often we don't listen." Then, with one rein, Ray pulls his mare's head around until her nose touches his knee. He rubs her forehead, a gesture that has become a trademark of Hunt clinics. "She knows my mind, and I try to understand hers, and she knows I'm her friend...
Epps said that only a very small percentage of the functions are restricted to invited guests. He failed to mention, however, which functions require invitations. Sure, any lowly undergraduate can munch on hot dogs and listen to the Kroks in the yard. But if you want to get within earshot of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun '29 or James Atlas '71 you better become a campus leader very quickly...
...Epps says, the undergraduate 350th offers something for everyone. And of course, the dean is right. If you can't dance beneath an ice sculpture of John Harvard or dine with the master of John Harvard's alma mater, you can always attend the Harvard-Cornell football game, or listen to a "New England Bandstand Concert" featuring various undergraduate performing groups...
...Victory is within sight! I have reached Au Bon Pain, only yards from Holyoke Center. I listen intently as a freshman recites the entire Arabic alphabet for her enraptured buddies...