Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's nothing that breaks up a crowded Harvard dining hall like the sound of glass meeting floor. Conversation ceases, faces turn, and everyone wants to know the identity of the ding-a-ling with butter fingers...
...Chang's hard lustre perfectly; he can do things with a cello, as Harvard audiences must recognize by now, that have to be heard to be believed. In tandem, the duo created a rich, fiery texture, particularly in the frequent double-stopped passages which almost duplicated a string quartet sound...
...about one-tenth of the American voters will have seen Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter in the flesh when the polls open. In most minds, the two men are special creations from the flickering, two-dimensional electronic screen and the printed page. They are light and shadow, fragments of sound...
Governor Michael S. Dukakis made an appearance, telling the crowd that the "vibrations across the country sound very, very good. After 22 months wrestling with Republicans in Washington, D.C., the thought of having Tip O'Neill as Speaker of the House and Jimmy Carter and Fritz Mondale in the White House is just too much to believe...
...year-old Hayakawa, with a longstanding reputation in academic circles as a semanticist, achieved national recognition in 1968 as president of San Francisco State College; he took a decisive stand against student protests there and, in one widely publicized incident, personally ripped the wires out of a student sound truck...