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Despite a short stint in Social Relations. Epps was never really committed to an academic career, but early latched on to administrative work as the area into which he would channel his energies. He is normally quite low-key--an approach which tends to win friends in high places. Early in 1970. Dean Dunlop appointed him to the Faculty Council, which replaced the old Committee on Educational Policy. Of 18 appointments, Epps's was the only non-academic...
...thought about the forest near her family's place in South Carolina and could then feel the low-key steady rushing of the wood creatures heading home. She laughed a small animal laugh; feeling the furry rodent-like animals and the dark birds, settling in for the night; fleeing to their burrows and nests. She was absorbed in the late afternoon rustling of the world's weak creatures hiding away, from night and the predators it cloaked...
Despite the shooting of an FBI agent Sunday, Wounded Knee has remained quiet this week. A raging blizzard on Tuesday helped create the low-key atmosphere, halting not only any FBI plans to storm the embattled village, but the negotiations as well...
...year ago, student leaders were predicting a quiet Spring; some went so far as to say activism was an impossibility given the mood of students. Events proved them wrong. And while a similar reversal could occur this Spring, the diffusion of the war as an issue and the low-key approach to current Harvard controversies foretells the Spring which Faculty and administrators have been anticipating for so long: no strike, no teach-in or counter teach-in, no building occupation, perhaps even no need for the tiresome...
...Sometimes I Feel So Uninspired" sings to paranoia, but is so low-key that it immediately suggests a drug-induced euphoria or hypnosis. The conga opening is catchy, and the entrance of saxophone and piano on the first verse is subtle. The rest of the band sneaks in toward the end of the verse, with the same drive they displayed on "Shoot Out," here geared down only enough to keep the tune's direction and pace. The song is based on simple descending and ascending progressions, with an uneven, yet impassioned vocal--listen to Winwood's delivery of the line...