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...says that he never really listened to rock music until a few months before he wrote it. The cut, which he says is his "rock-and-roll statement," frequently changes rhythm and key. "I Am," along with the other two cuts which Federer helped compose, have a Slavic feeling, which one of the band's musicians described as being similar to Dvorak...
...current school year to a more manageable $900,000 loss. Bowen managed to maintain a reputation for accessibility and for fair-minded analysis even among those at the university who were hurt by the cuts. In the economy drive, athletics funds were trimmed and the entire graduate program in Slavic studies is being phased out to avoid weakening other disciplines by major across-the-board cutbacks. Reasoned Bowen: "It's better to do a smaller number of things well." Scholars in other graduate programs, their budgets nearly intact, readily agreed...
...laconically as "Secretary". What an apt symbol for the subjection of women in our society! Whatever the linguistic value of 'marked' and 'unmarked' members of linguistic pairs, is it not curious that common usage often marks 'Secretary' as female and last in line? Laura Mavis Gordon Teaching Fellow in Slavic Languages and Literatures Assistant Tutor in Eliot House Patrick J. Ryan, S.J. Teaching Fellow in General Education Tutor in Eliot House
With a few minutes remaining in the drowning, the p.a. announced a "post-game Slavic concert" in the Cornell stands. Sure enough, while the Harvard band ran for the warmth and security of the Band room, Cornell, in their marine trench coats, stood on the fifty-yard line and began a rendition of Sibelius 'Finlandia' in the middle of the downpour. I don't know what they played next, and neither did the rest of the Cambridge crowd which dashed for Harvard Square...
...down in an overstuffed armchair next to me. After ordering scotch with water "but no ice," he introduced himself as "Roger Smith, a professor of social sciences." He noted that he was an American scholar studying the aftereffects of the "Prague Spring" and the Soviet invasion. With a heavy Slavic accent, he lapsed for several minutes into part sociological jargon, part hilariously outdated American slang, last heard in 1930 movies...