Word: singings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...messages into his brain. Although initially embarrassed and hostile in answering questions about the incident, Rather began to view the story with humor as it receded into the past. He even went so far as to appear on stage with the rock group R.E.M. two years ago to help sing its song, "What's The Frequency Kenneth?" To some, his off-key performance was conclusive proof that the media is indeed beaming hostile messages at people...
...ruled that public, male-only military academies were unconstitutional, claim that they were assaulted and sexually harassed. Despite a careful, court-approved assimilation plan intended to ensure the women's safety, Messer and Mentavlos say that fingernail polish was smeared on them and ignited, that they were forced to sing obscene songs, that their mouths were washed out with cleanser, that they were forced to drink iced tea until they vomited. They also say that when they reported these and other incidents to their superiors, no action was taken. Mentavlos' brother, a senior and an honors student, also left...
...anthropologist Donald Johanson, known for his work on the human ancestor Lucy, who helped teach them about human evolution. In the evenings on each trip they would go to the beach with four or five other couples for bonfires, Hood Canal-style games and a tradition they called the sing-down, where each team is given a word and has to come up with songs that feature it. Winblad remembers Gates disappearing on a dark beach after his group had been given the word sea, and then slowly emerging from the mist singing a high-pitched solo of Puff...
...would argue is the mother of all novels. In recounting Odysseus' long journey home from the Trojan War, Fagles finds a contemporary English style that beckons to the ear as well as the eye. Rewardingly for an age so often rendered in rap and heavy metal, he makes Homer sing...
Though I could never sing, dance or act, I love going to plays. I tend to come to every performance of the same show, memorize every word and sit in the darkened audience imagining I am on stage. However, when I came to college I figured I would have to take a four-year hiatus from this obsession. Harvard gets lauded for so many different reasons-- increasingly, even for its athletic prowess--but hardly ever for its theater. Until this past weekend I had always assumed that the theater jocks were all drawn to that football-challenged fall-back school...