Word: parkers
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...compensate for the delays, the University tried this year to lobby in Congress for a tax credit that would help defray construction costs for cogeneration facilities. But it was a tax credit, and as Parker L. Coddington, director of government relations says, "tax credits have a very hard time in the Ways and Means Committee." The University lobbied hard for the proposal but eventually it died. "We were running against a very strong current," Coddington explains, adding, "it was not just somebody taking aim at Harvard or at MATEP...
...expanded and deepened. He has always something, an original; but in the late 1940s and early '50s, when his recordings with Stan Kenton, Shorty Rogers and other West Coast jazzmen first brought him to prominence, his sound combined traces of Lester Young's cool obliqueness with Charlie Parker's harmonic and rhythmic complexities. Later he took on a darker, sometimes harsher quality as he came under the influence of John Coltrane's stabbing, honking outcries and modal sheets of sound. Last week's performances showed how successfully he has brought all these strains together within...
Remember, however, that Hall recorded this album when easy-listening acts like Fleetwood Mac dominated the airwaves before the Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello and Graham Parker high-energy excitement back into the market. Sacred Songs distinguishes itself as a suppressed, but nevertheless prophetic, work hailing a new era of "confusion, profanity and energy...
Since 1963, Harry Parker has coached heavyweight crew at Harvard. Before this season, his crews had won 68 races and lost eight, including 11 Eastern Sprints titles. This year his crew went undefeated and won yet another Sprints championship...
These photos, from The Crimson's files, show Parker over the couse of his career, in 1974 [bottom left], in 1970, [bottom right]. The picture to the left shows Parker and this year's heavyweight captain, Charlie Altekruse, accepting the trophies for the crew's 1980 Sprints victory...