Word: spokenness
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...Reid, says Baker, was soft-spoken when he first attended the mosque and "very anxious to learn." Another member describes him as gentle and amiable. That distinguished him from Brixton's most notorious alumnus. Zacarias Moussaoui, a Frenchman who was detained in Minnesota last August and later charged with complicity in the Sept. 11 attacks, worshipped in Brixton while studying in London. Moussaoui is remembered in the mosque as a committed hard-liner...
Frankie V is a large, round and smooth man with a large, round and smooth sound. Clad in a warm-up jacket and black cords, this soft-spoken flugelhornist and trumpeter could have been mistaken for your typical garage-collection suburbanite jazz aficionado—that is, until he put mouth to valve and sang out the mournful melody of Wayne Shorter’s “Footsteps.” From then on, the lyrical and deep sound of his horn reinvented the familiar tune, revealing and reveling in an inner sadness too often missed by breezy tenor...
...Mullah Omar, the fugitive leader of Afghanistan's fallen regime and chief ally of Osama bin Laden. But, until TIME alerted U.S. military officials in Kabul in late January of his willingness to talk, no American officials had debriefed Khaksar. Two weeks after, no senior U.S. intelligence official had spoken...
...listened to it and I think that as art, it’s embarrassingly bad, it’s another failure and if I made it, I’d be embarrassed. And I’m not trying to question the validity of spoken word or rap or any of those traditions. I just think that Cornel West has made a rather bad spoken word CD where he says a bunch of rather banal things that are not terribly interesting...
...ethnic studies department—should in general steer away from whatever Eurocentric standards may be used to apply to academia. And the existence of tenure and academic freedom is what allows more creativity and extension in these fields. If one person believes that a spoken word CD is not academia, then it is not in his position to pass judgment on someone else who has tenure and thus bears the charter, mandate and obligation to explore his creativity...