Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contain, however, is the degree of spontaneity and emotional depth that mark Hardin's in-person performing. He has one of the most poignant voices in the folk field, seemingly always about to crack or lapse into a sigh, as if the effort of every graceful phrase cost him pain. His melodic songs of love, loneliness and loss are romantic yet rigorously crafted ("You look to me / Like misty roses / Too soft to touch / But too lovely to leave alone"). This is by far the best record yet by a sensitive and gifted performer...
...refuse to have a temporary marriage just to be able to give birth to a legitimate child. So I'm trapped. There's nowhere to turn. If I can't get an abortion legally and decently, I'll go out of my mind." The glib lay phrase "go out of my mind" by itself would not have im-pressed the psychiatrist, but in this case he was convinced that pregnancy and childbirth might be enough to precipitate severe mental illness...
...nine months of this year, imports gained 31% in clothing, 32% in whisky (mainly Scotch), 49% for radios and television sets. Excluding duty-free trade with Canada, auto imports have soared by 70%, or $430 million. Chartener sums up the whole problem in what has become an almost generic phrase: "It's those Volkswagens...
Despite Soc Sci 5's well publicized difficulties, the general faculty feeling is that these difficulties are only transitional and can be explained, to use the phrase of one professor, "by exogenous factors." The exogenous factors cited by some faculty members include...
...Professor Rosovsky's phrase, "a response to an emergency." And the limited but emotional war waged against it these past few weeks is perhaps important only to the extent that it affects the future of black-experience courses at Harvard...