Word: straightforwardly
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...Hitmen, are conspicuously absent–is markedly better than the rest. “Pray,” the first song and second track of the record, goes right for the jugular. Heavy rhythmic bass, a pulsing melody, shouts, and a distorted guitar accompany Jay’s straightforward, unremitting delivery. The sparking of what is presumably a J at the end of the track blazes the way for the mellifluous and soulful track to follow, “American Dreamin’,” which sends the listener back to the 70s with a Marvin Gaye sample...
...process is simple enough. Every spring, just as the current captain of the Harvard men’s hockey team is preparing to graduate, the players and coaches of the Crimson elect a rising senior to serve as captain for the upcoming season. The vote is generally a straightforward affair, refined over the course of 109 years of Harvard hockey, and the new leader of the Crimson is usually chosen without a hitch...
...these two incidents, the College created the Committee on Social Clubs last spring to look into unrecognized student groups. The committee found that other schools, including Dartmouth and Yale, have similar policies that hold even unaffiliated student groups responsible.“This [disciplinary policy] was a fairly straightforward action by the faculty and I am certain it could have been adopted earlier,” John “Jay” Ellison, the secretary of the Administrative Board, wrote in an e-mail.Aside from the health risks involved with drugs and alcohol, Kidd said Harvard has also been pushed...
...form of music. But the origins of tango in Latin America, within certain areas of Latin America, within a certain class of people—all of this combines to make a really interdisciplinary, as well as an international, perspective.”Indeed, rather than opening with a straightforward lecture, first on the conference’s program is “Wallflowers and Femmes Fatales: Dancing Gender and Politics,” billed as “lecture and demonstration” by Marta Elena Savigliano, a professor in the Department of World Arts and Culture...
With the exception of Moral Reasoning and Science A, I’ve actually lucked out with Cores. I managed to pick classes that exposed me to new facts about French cinema, lactational amenorrhea, or immigration in straightforward terms, without feeling terribly dumbed-down. I don’t feel very well-rounded in different disciplines, but these classes raised questions and proposed solutions that spoke directly to my life: What impact does government policy have on students? How will changing demographic trends affect my own children? Really, my uterus does that...