Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major record. Her voice sounds like Mitchell's might if you threw a little yeast into it and aged it for a while. Her music is at a crossroads between country, blues and folk rock and her songs adhere to the popular format: two stanzas each followed by a refrain, a musical interlude, and then a final stanza with refrain. There's something about her music though, that goes beyond regularity something that singles her out as a possibly important singer, Right now she has flashes of potential but they're like lightning illuminating the whole horizon, warnings...
...that . . . cuts in half the maturation time for Cheddar cheese." Moreover, the book's glossary of labels for meatless-dieters is as discouraging as mock chopped liver: "ovo-lactarians" supplement their plant food with eggs and milk; "granivores" eat only seeds and grains; "fruitarians" consume only fruits; "vegans" refrain from utilizing any animal product whatever...
Making matters worse is the Government's "affirmative action" policy. Federal regulations state that most organizations with $50,000 or more in Government contracts must not only refrain from discriminating; if necessary, they must also establish "goals" for increased percentages of female and minority workers. Universities found themselves in particular trouble. On the one hand, they have had trouble finding enough qualified people to meet affirmative-action goals. On the other hand, affirmative action came under attack for its seeming bias against white males. Complaints were so strong that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare was forced...
...Museum of Fine Arts is, in its own words, "Providing Easterners with a rare look at this country's Far Western heritage." I will refrain from a snide comment that it's high time the Eastern Seaboard realized that heritage does exist West of the Rockies, but I can't comment on "Frontier America: The Far West" because I haven't gotten over to see it yet. The exhibit is the first of the MFA's bicentennial program, and includes household objects, drawings, paintings and photographs...
Persistently, almost rhythmically, the prosecutor repeated the question. Soon, everyone in the courtroom, including the pained witness, could anticipate it. For some, the impulse to join in the refrain was difficult to resist. In his deceptively soft Tennessee drawl, Chief Prosecutor James Neal would ask: "Now, you wanted to get the truth out, Mr. Ehrlichman?" That has been Defendant John Ehrlichman's claim in the Watergate conspiracy trial. But with searing effect, Neal shredded that defense by repeatedly showing how much Ehrlichman had known about the cover-up and how little he had disclosed to investigators...