Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...driving across Indiana in early May 1968, searching for Bobby Kennedy's whistle-stop campaign, one heard another chord as well -- Paul Simon's wistful note of disconnection: "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes...
YEARS AGO, when Harvard/Radcliffe went co-ed, an historical dialectic was set in motion. A wave of sexual equality came crashing down on the white male Harvard establishment. (Note the Marxist imagery.) Although it hasn't hit the overwhelmingly male faculty and administration, when the process is consummated a new social order--and a new student center--will rise upon the ruins of the finals clubs and the entire bald white patriarchy...
...played with one or two mallets in each hand, which are raised and then brought down sharply on the keys, called bars. Stevens has revolutionized the playing of the instrument, pioneering a complex four-mallet technique with a finger grip that allows him to execute broken chords, four-note harmonies and even separate melody and accompaniment by means of something he calls the "one-handed roll": one hand plays two notes tremolo while the other picks out a tune. In his hands, the marimba has gone from being a useful but limited foot soldier in the percussion battery...
...first sour note was struck when Dole appeared beside Ronald Reagan in the White House to announce halfheartedly that he would support the INF missile treaty. Dole has been waffling on the treaty in an attempt to appease G.O.P. right-wingers, while Bush loyally endorsed the deal. Reagan, who needs the backing of Senate Republicans to ratify his treaty, was in the awkward position of seeming to boost Dole's faltering campaign...
...Tutu, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has traveled the world denouncing apartheid, South Africa's system of official discrimination against blacks. But last week the black clergyman took aim at a different target: human rights abuses in black-ruled African countries. "It is sad that South Africa is noted for its vicious violations of human rights," Tutu told a Nairobi press conference at a meeting of the All Africa Conference of Churches. "But it is also very sad to note that there is less freedom in some independent African countries than there was in the much maligned colonial period...