Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...describes how he and two friends were on their way to the bakery to buy bread when they were nabbed by Serbian soldiers of the federal army and subjected to a night of abuse. Threatened with beatings, they were forced to kneel, butt their heads against a wall and sing songs impugning the virtue of Muslim women. "We sang," he says, "but they beat us anyway...
Twenty-five years ago, they seemed to be the classic college odd couple. William H. Vanderbilt '67 was the jock. John P. Bihldorff '67 was the mathematician. Vanderbilt was captain of several sports teams. Bihldorff was president of the Glee Club. "He couldn't sing a note," Bihldorff laughs about Vanderbilt...
...Radcliffe Pitches. Although they followed an impressive set by the Kroks at the Why Not Jam, the Pitches displayed a strong line-up of soloists and even brought Archie Epps on stage to sing an elegant "Somewhere Over the Rainbow...
...abhor V.G.s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C: (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give Ds. Consider C-a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sing the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole think boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read this week...
...chef who experiments in nouvelle kosher. Says Finn: "I realized that I was obsessed with these characters. I still am. I am not interested in writing about anyone else. Everything that moves and grips me in the theater can be told through these people. And they all seem to sing quite naturally, which is vital for a musical. They are all given to that level of emotional excess...