Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delighted that Nancy will be completingour 'quartet,'" said a statement released byoutgoing K-School Dean Graham T. Allison '62. The"quartet" refers to the school's top fouradministrators, including Allison, Dunn, Cavanaghand Academic Dean Albert Carnesale...
...defending Ivy League and Eastern champions also sent out the all-freshman quartet of Courtney Chubb, Ruthie Tanenbaum, Jenny Moyer, and Stephanie Wriede in the final event, the freestyle relay. The four rookies were out-touched at the end, finishing in second place...
...thumbed through leaf-lets on how to be a computer technician, how to raise birds and why Roger Staubach buys National Home insurance. I read through "Suburban Help Wanted" (Vol. XI, published in Burlington, MA). I browsed the bulletin board ads and even considered calling the Reading Barbershop Quartet and asking them to sing to me over the phone. I finally lost interest after asking in vain for the story of the oil portrait of George Rubin (founder of the store), which was hanging over the meat counter; the butcher boy seemed surprised to see it up there...
...mood is far more serious in the rehearsal rooms of the 51 quartets that are vying for the international championship. Singers pace, vocalizing bits and pieces of their lyrics, all the while sipping glass after glass of water to lubricate their cords. Among such polished foursomes, the margin of victory will hang on fine points: how well a group conveys the mood and emotion of a song and how precisely its singers blend their four notes to produce a fifth, wholly new harmonic. That high, ringing fifth tone -- the overtone, or "bird" -- is the grail that every barbershop quartet strives...
...other guy. " 'We' is the competition," notes a Chief of Staffer. No candy-shirted drunks around a barber pole at this convention. For the final rounds, the costuming is ingenious. Houston's Inns 'n Outts strut onstage painted up as the four gray visages of Mount Rushmore. A Virginia quartet appears as clowns. Florida's Sidekicks prance on as doctors and plumbers. But the twelve judges are looking for more than slapstick. "Too much theatrics detract from sound quality," sniffs...