Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President of Radcliffe College Linda S. Wilson then gave an address centered around the phrase "Get a Life!" which dealt heavily with Radcliffe alumna Helen Keller '04, and wished seniors "a life that makes use of your gifts and is a gift to others...
...Harvard's president, he has access to a bully pulpit with a political voice as strong as the phrase implies. But observers often conclude that Rudenstine should tread less softly and do more with the University's big stick...
...will "bring discredit upon the armed forces." For more than two centuries, millions of American servicemen honoring military tradition in bordellos around the globe were not deemed thus prejudicial; they worried more about disease than about prosecution. Many Air Force pilots today continue to salute each other with the phrase "Wings up, [wedding] rings off." Some of those assigned to TDY, or temporary duty, on distant bases still keep civilian "TDY wives" in addition to their real ones...
What a nice change of pace it is to hear two trumpets playing together in a small-group context. They share lovers' murmurs here, a joke there, sometimes joining for a ripe, plangent phrase. The nonagenarian demonstrates lungs, the whippersnapper sly wit (and an occasional bent for theatrics); both have a sweetly teasing way with a melody. Cheatham's talk-singing on 10 of the 14 tunes may be an acquired taste. On the continuum of singing horn players, he's probably closer to Dizzy Gillespie than to Armstrong, but listeners with generous ears will be charmed...
...What we have here, believe it or not, is 62 minutes of great make-out music. What a nice change of pace it is to hear two trumpets playing together in a small-group context. They share lovers? murmurs here, a joke there, sometimes joining for a ripe, plangent phrase. The nonagenarian demonstrates lungs, the whippersnapper sly wit (and an occasional bent for theatrics); both have a sweetly teasing way with a melody. Cheatham?s talk-singing on 10 of the 14 tunes may be an acquired taste. On the continuum of singing horn players, he?s probably closer...