Word: quiets
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...death in 1973. This is not the first J.R.R. Tolkien book that Christopher has had a hand in. In 1977, he published The Silmarillion, an esoteric compendium of his father's stories that continues the Middle-earth mythology and is a required text for Tolkien scholars and enthusiasts. A quiet, private man, Christopher is now 81 and lives in France, where he has sought to evade obsessive fans and media pressure. There, he has had ample time to work on Hurin, which is something of a prequel to the classic Tolkien tales. "It's the first complete tale from...
...full band (perhaps too full, with two drummers/percussionists) both live and on “Post-War,” didn’t unravel the intimacy of his words with overstuffed sound. While the solid backbeat dissolved the illusion that Ward’s songs were quiet confessions (except for the beautiful “I’ll Be Yr Bird,” which Ward performed in the encore before his band joined him), this did less to depersonalize the songs than it did to distance Ward from whisperer-confessors like Sam Beam of Iron & Wine...
...wore many masks and played many roles, going from an impressive acoustic jam (both hands slapping and sliding the entire length of the fretboard), to the Sparklehorse-inspired trembling of “I’ll Be Yr Bird.” Across the entire spectrum, loud or quiet, there is a sense of familiarity with Ward, and it is a comfort that transcends the stories and sounds of his songs. It’s not so much the plaintive fragility of those with whom he is often compares (Beam of Iron & Wine, Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse), so much...
...controversy. Only games will answer those questions.“We’re going into this week, the game week, with a lot of excitement,” Dawson said last week before the Holy Cross opener. “There’s a lot of confidence, quiet confidence in the capabilities of our team.”Whether that excitement and confidence translates into sustained success remains to be seen. But the time for answers has finally come.—Staff writer Brad Hinshelwood can be reached at bhinshel@fas.harvard.edu...
...Bush has an odd job, where you're expected both to be the nation's best hostess and also to care about safe issues. She hasn't done something as dramatic as run for Senate, like her predecessor. But for a quiet librarian who told George W. Bush she would marry him only if she didn't have to give speeches, she is talking louder than she ever expected...