Word: spokenness
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...album, are the only songs that fall short of expectations. “Difícil” is a whiny ballad in which we hear Juanes’s falsetto for the first time, and hopefully the last. The song’s cheesy spoken monologue secures its place as the second worst song on the album—next to “Tres.” Too repetitive and too Latin American by anyone’s standards, it’s tough to get through from beginning to end. Despite these two aberrations, Juanes delivers...
...signature of Houston's flourishing indie hip-hop sound is the technique of slowing down a track to simulate the effects of the scene's trippy drug of choice, codeine-laced cough syrup. Among the nationally recognized stars of the genre was Big Moe, known for fusing spoken verse, singing and complex melodies. The University of Houston graduate--whose 2002 album, Purple World, reached No. 3 on Billboard's hip-hop charts--was 33 and apparently died of a heart attack...
...right conclusion to draw is not that Petersen shouldn’t have spoken. It’s that he should have been bolder, more eloquent, more persuasive, and more magisterial in his delivery. It could have been a speech to remember, and he could have been a hero...
...there not only as an usher, welcoming Faust’s leadership, but also as a symbol of students’ singular role in this community of scholars. With his criticism, Petersen deliberately shunned this historic role—he is only the second student known to have spoken at a Harvard presidential installation—and implicitly rejected the mutual responsibility of the student citizenship he discussed. Some would argue that the installation was exactly the forum for “free inquiry and open debate” that Petersen described. But the hostile criticism that he used...
...Faust said in the interview that she approached the letter both as one of Conant’s successors and as a historian.“This is my life. My life has been, as a historian, the voices across generations, the voices from the past that have spoken to me in primary sources,” Faust said. “To have something directed this way, to me, at this moment, seemed almost supernatural somehow.”“It was addressed to ‘My dear Sir,’” Faust...