Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brad, 23, is not, to be exacting, a resident of the Pit. He does, however, pass through it several times a week between his workplace in the square and his pad. There, he makes self-confessed terrible music with similarly soft-spoken, sensitively-slanted friends. Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" was the first song to make a dent in his consciousness, but the Backstreet Boys haunt him now as the curdle of the pop crop. He won't admit it, but Brad knows...
Serious anime fans who are interested in more than just bargain-priced video rentals can also try their hand at drawing their own anime-style cartoons with fellow club members. If you'd like to learn to subtitle anime, though, Widener's copy of "Spoken Japanese Simplified" might be a place to start...
Fifties Guys are people who graduated from college in the years from the early Fifties to around 1965, when what is now spoken of as the Sixties started to get in gear. As a Fifties Guy myself, I can testify that going to college in that era had all the excitement of standing at the luggage carousel waiting for your bags to come off the plane...
...shows or movies don't have to clear every mention of Harvard with University officials, but most of the time, studios will ask permission for lengthy spoken references to Harvard...
...while Harvard may have helped his career off the starting blocks, Newell's work since then has clearly spoken for itself...