Word: loudnesses
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...believe in God / So I can’t be saved / All the low things / I’ve learned to be / In this mess I have made.” And it was a record store failure. The album was a far cry from the loud, angry angst of the band’s debut, and certainly not “Brick: Part Two” as so many fans and critics wanted. The band’s most introspective, well-integrated album was met with largely mediocre sales and reviews...
...Fuel and Filter producer Ben Grosse. He had dropped two of the finest instumentalists around and was playing almost everything on his own. And the title track to the album, “Rockin’ The Suburbs”, which hit the airwaves early this summer, was a loud, guitar-driven song without a piano note in earshot. However, upon listening my fears were quickly allayed as I heard an album in line with Folds’s progression into a more complex, clever musician...
Current polls leave no doubt that the peacenik naysayers now running to the flowers are but a tiny minority of our people. Yet they scream in a voice that is loud and familiar. The neo-hippies who jeer from their idle repose in academia’s ideological daisy-fields are relics of the slovenly anarchism that was born of our parents’ generation, reached its apogee at the height of the Vietnam War, and survives to this day in tenured faculty positions everywhere. And it is the fantasies of that generation—its moral relativism, its cult...
...didn’t receive Harvard’s support on Monday, and the writers who applied for columns and were rejected, and the singers who were refused membership to prestigious groups, and anyone else who has ever been rejected from anything at Harvard, all heard this message loud and clear. It’s hard to win at a genius school where everyone is not only competent, but exceptional...
...could frequently be heard reciting from the Koran. They wore traditional Islamic garb, at least some of the time. The men often sat in circles on the floor praying, a neighbor reported. When they caught her watching, they installed blinds. They spoke good German. One neighbor complained about loud Arabic music. Despite Nehm's claims, the German sojourn has the feel of a somewhat more relaxed period, of working toward a goal that was not yet imminent...