Word: salient
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What makes the album uniquely Lennon's, though, is his penchant for enigmatic lyrics. His messages verge on the opaque, although the main theme almost always becomes salient by a song's last note. On "Home," a meld of late-era Beatles and guitar-heavy modern rock, "The broken glass that fades/The past is a parade of countless days/Painting patterns in the sand" vaults Sean out of escapism into confronting his legacy in order to move on. "Mystery Juice" is an exception to the rule as Sean makes himself completely indiscernible: "They stole the show and towed the rowboat/Though slow/We...
...There are times when we have to band together in a common cause," said Kevin A. Shapiro '99, editor of The Salient, in a May interview. "In protesting Jiang's visit, we had conservative student groups like The Salient joined with groups like Amnesty International. It was useful and productive...
...think the debate showed that this was an issue that was very salient and very important to students," says Olivia Verma '99, an original sponsor of the bill. "Once it was in the Crimson headlines, the administration realized that their discussions, which had been very silent and tentative, were discussions that students wanted out loud and wanted to be a part...
Chan stressed the importance of "harness[ing] the uses of the information age and its technology" in an era of numerous "salient issues" and "unprecedented diversity on campus...
...response to community attempts to prevent the Holmes development in Central Square, Cabot Henderson wrote the following in a March 16 salient article: "The new complex is being built because there is a demand for quality housing and Khaki pants which is not currently being met in Central Square. Meddling with these irrepressible forces results in distortion." This type of simplistic faith in the Truth of the market, and espousal of the value of submitting to the machinations of the market, disturbs us almost as much as sweatshop horror stories...