Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many decades, the Admissions Committee has chosen the person with truly unusual accomplishments over one who has demonstrated little achievement in any form even though he or she may have somewhat higher SATs. For example, the Committee might decide to sacrifice 150 SAT points and take a highly gifted musician who, by Crimson standards, is "less qualified." In fact, students who are highly active extracurricularly do better academically than those who are not. Extracurricular excellences usually indicate energy, drive and commitment that serve a student well during college and beyond. Extracurricular activities are also a principal means by which undergraduates...
...crept up on an estimated 100 million people worldwide, among them actress Mary Tyler Moore, jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie and singer Ella Fitzgerald. Because the initial symptoms (fatigue, frequent urination) are usually mild, half the 12 million Americans with diabetes do not realize they have it. Even after diagnosis, many patients fail to take diabetes as seriously as they should. "At first, everything goes along fine," sighs June Howe, a patient at Boston's Joslin Diabetes Center. "You don't realize that later on problems will...
...further support for the idea of a nosering trend comes from a trendy popular musician...
...adored son of a painter father and a poet-musician mother, both of whom believed more in creativity and spirituality than in formal art training. The fact that they wanted him to be an artist annulled, for Pousette-Dart, the insecurity that makes some painters overdependent on the art world; he could and did go his own way, being spared the insecurity and conflict that would presumably have been his lot if he had decided to go into law or advertising. "I guess I was even belligerent about my aloneness," he remarked many years after the early '50s, when...
What does America's space program have in common with a soprano saxophone? Quite a lot, when the instrument is played by Jane Ira Bloom, 35, a jazz virtuoso who was the first musician commissioned to create a work for NASA's art program. Witnessing a Discovery shuttle launch close up inspired her to compose a four-part suite entitled Rediscovery, which premiered at Cape Canaveral last fall. Long fascinated by the links between music and motion, Bloom has also composed scores for the famed Pilobolus Dance Theater and the repertory theater at Yale, where she earned a master...