Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also a confident subversive, gnawing away at the notion currently so popular in political circles that average Americans, holding to traditional values, bulwark us against the virus of postmodern moral ambiguity. What he's saying in this marvelously dry, sly movie is that it's epidemic ... and irresistible." MUSIC . . . PEARL JAM: The guys in the Seattle-based rock band Pearl Jam are only in their thirties, but the group's newest album, 'No Code,' sounds as if they?re having a mid-life crisis. "The songs on the CD flail this way and that, screamingly loud on the vocal-chord...
Another problem is a lack of big names out on the road. What with R.E.M., U2 and Pearl Jam sitting the summer out (all three are preparing new albums) and the Grateful Dead disbanded (in the wake of front man Jerry Garcia's death last August), there are no surefire-draw megabands touring this summer, no must-see, tell-your-grandkids musical events--with the possible exception of the affably popular supergroup Hootie & the Blowfish. Sure, the Sex Pistols and Kiss have reunited and are touring, but those are concerts you tell your grandfather about...
Harvard, like much of America before Pearl Harbor was somewhat complacent about the gathering clouds of war. But there was one figure at the University who defied the isolationists and the appeasers--Conant...
Finally, following Pearl Harbor, Harvard, along with the rest of America, decided...
Apart from the quality of the food served in the dining halls and the skewed age distribution of the student body, Harvard during my first year was not very different from what it had been like before Pearl Harbor...