Word: spokenness
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...classroom or around campus, she’s just like any other Harvard student. But on the track, this soft-spoken senior transforms into one of the most versatile competitors the Crimson track program has seen in a very long time...
...woman who complained that classical music had no plot. I thought that was truly insightful—there are just notes going by, just random sounds. My job is to get people to follow the plot of the music and to understand the language that the plot is being spoken in. THC: What is it about the stereotypical classical music concert experience that seems to discourage untrained listeners from participating?RK: There’s so much bad feeling around it, so many “coulds” and “shoulds?...
...It’s amazing but also very lonely,” said Vincent M. Chiappini ’09, who is also am FM columnist, of his experience as a researcher-writer in France. “At one point I hadn’t spoken English face-to-face with another native speaker for three weeks.” The end result is a resource that facilitates shoestring travel. “You probably won’t find the nicest restaurants in the guides, which makes sense if you’re a student traveler...
...Resisting of Cassandra Creep For weeks, Obama has reminded the nation of the fix it's in. He has spoken of the risk of downward "spiral," deepening "crises," potential economic "catastrophe" and the "big challenge" ahead. At the time, such language served a political purpose: to direct public pressure toward Congress to pass the stimulus, while making clear that the problems were inherited. But too much grim talk runs the risk of becoming self-fulfilling. As White House economists will explain, the worst fears of an economic spiral involve a self-perpetuating collapse in consumer confidence that leads...
...more famous, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s radical socialist policies, or his notoriously exaggerated personality. Chávez’s constant interruptions of the Spanish prime minister in late 2007 at a summit in Chile brought the king of Spain, a normally soft-spoken man, to shout, “Why don’t you shut up?” Yet Chávez will not be shutting up any time soon. On Monday, Venezuela passed a national referendum that removed term limits for public officials, allowing Chávez and his appointees...