Word: solemnness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...avoid being the one to slow down the bandwagon--often sways students into opening their wallets. After all, no one absolutely has to walk in a cap and gown for Commencement exercises. That's not to say anyone would want to be wearing pink in a sea of solemn, black robes. And when your own classmates are asking you to pledge $10 to the Senior Class Gift so that your house's participation rate will best all the rest, how easy...
Having sworn a solemn oath to see Harvard's calendar change before I die, I'm alarmed by the marked lack of anticalendar sentiment evident on campus these days. What follows is my attempt to fan the smoldering flames of the noble struggle against the great hated bourgeois calendar...
Producer Emory Gordy Jr. (her current husband) wraps Loveless around 10 prime laments that express the aftershock of betrayal, in musical settings that range from up-tempo to hillbilly solemn. The opener, Richard Thompson's Tear-Stained Letter, has a perky Cajun feel, with fiddles and steel guitar establishing a pace Richard Petty would find hard to match. Yet the song is about the inflicting of some pretty serious domestic abuse--"He danced on my head like Arthur Murray,/The scars ain't never gonna mend in a hurry"--by a guy who then decides he wants to be taken...
...historic interior space of remarkable beauty, respected and even revered as such by countless architects, historians, architectural historians and other experts in such matters (though no, to be sure, by Mr. Campbell) which would instantly provide an ideal setting--something Harvard could certainly use--for the grandest, most solemn and most joyous occasions (as well as ordinary ones) and also, quite possibly most important of all, a place for quiet contemplation, for receiving the inspiring messages from the past emanating from the surroundings (including, perhaps, paintings and tapestries) and for simply congregating with other students and teachers, as the hall...
...Loveless sings it, the truth ain't pretty, but it sounds as golden as the Gospel." says Corliss. "Producer Emory Gordy Jr. (her current husband) wraps Loveless around 10 prime laments that express the aftershock of betrayal, in musical settings that range from up-tempo to hillbilly solemn...