Word: salient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigation is being sponsored by The Harvard Salient, a politically conservative journal, which will publish test results in two weeks. "We've all seen brown, yellow or funny-tasting water," said Salient editor Ronald Granieri '89. "We thought it would be neat to find out if there's any lead...
...salient example of Dukakis' shortcomings is his dealings with Blacks. He seems to believe that Blacks will vote for him because he is not George Bush. But what makes him so sure that, given his silence on issues important to Blacks (civil rights, for instance), Blacks will vote...
Finally, on May 25, Iraqi forces threw Iranian troops out of an important salient: territory east of the port of Basra that had been a staging area for Iranian artillery bombardments of the city. The operation reportedly took just five hours, with the Iranians putting up only token resistance...
...such, he represents one of the salient trends in modern American music, the fusion of the pop vernacular with the mainstream classical tradition. He is not alone: Rock Musician Glenn Branca writes raucous symphonies for electric guitars, and the Chinese-American Lucia Hwong brings a cross-cultural sensibility to bear on her wistful New Age musings. But although Davis' orchestral music may contain improvisatory sections reminiscent of jazz, it is carefully controlled and expertly planned. Imagine Ellington's lush, massed sonorities propelled by Bartok's vigorous whiplash rhythms and overlaid with the seductive percussive haze of the Balinese gamelan orchestra...
...following morning," Roth recalls, "my boss called me and said, 'Did you notice that they didn't give the army any credit in finding the behavior?'" So, Roth sent copies of salient sections of his paper to the Ribicoff Committee, omitting the title page without the army address...