Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the actors in smaller roles play them with relish. Only Charles Keckler, in the Peter Lorre role of Dr. Einstein, hits a sour note because of the incomprehensible polyglot accent that mars his Lorre imitation...
DAVID PILBEAM began his tenure as head of the Committee on Undergraduate Education on the right note last week when he announced that the quality of academic advising will be among his top concerns. The six students who sit with six faculty members on the committee rightly welcomed the announcement, and Evan J. Mandery '89, Undergraduate Council chairman and CUE representative, said he hoped a "model system" of advising could be set up this year...
...California-born Partch, who died in 1974, was a noteworthy iconoclast. Dissatisfied with the "tempered" method of tuning in use since the time of Bach, Partch sought a purer, just intonation based on the harmonic overtones that resonate naturally when any note is sounded. To make his microtones audible, Partch invented a series of exotic instruments constructed out of such objects as artillery shell casings and Pyrex jars...
Traders said stock prices started off on a depressed note after overseas markets continued to post huge losses, capping the worst week in global equity trading since the Great Depression...
...nation should take note of the Homer Hanky craze. Every day, hundreds of loyal citizens line up outside the local newspaper to get 50 cent hankies. Homer Hankies are being tied around baby bottoms, flying from flagpoles and, most importantly, waving in the Dome...