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...courses," which are either a pair of strings played together or a single string, and different kinds of lutes from different periods had different numbers of courses. This is one of the most interesting things about the lute: because it was constantly changing and advancing, it is impossible to pin down precisely what its physical characteristics are. As manufacturing techniques improved, the instrument became more and more complex. Better access to materials led to a greater numbers of ribs in the body, and new treatments of gut led to a greater range of strings. So the middle Renaissance lute...
Likewise, junior Kevin Kurtz, who had a thrilling overtime victory last week at Penn, went for an early finish at 157 pounds with a pin...
...appealing than the last-call crowd at a singles bar. A startling number of men thought the most important thing for me to know was their waist size or the precise angle of their hairline. And there was the guy who directed me to his personal website, filled with pin-up shots, including one of him in the buff. Charming...
...poem of Herbert's, hints at the character of his poetry. Herbert begins with "We fall asleep on words / we wake among words," outlining the windows of perception so densely implicit in Herbert's image-heavy poems. Herbert goes on to describe lost words as being "a small prickly pin / that connected / the most beautiful / lost metaphor in the world." His persistence in revamping sentence and idea structure in order to illustrate experience despite the fragility of language is thus made explicit. His method, however, is not so straightforward, relying on intuition and dream("one must dream patiently / hoping...
...pin from registrar's office Web site takes 7,200 minutes...