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...Friday night, and the basement of WHRB is hot, dark and crowded. People sway, jump, groove and yell to the sounds of two indie-rock-inspired Harvard bands, Hypertrophie Shitstraw and Mopar...
...music so utterly depends on the perception of sound that it seems inconceivable for one to exist without the other. One can imagine a deaf composer if, as in the case of Beethoven, he spent decades absorbed in the world of pitch and melody before silence held sway. Music, after all, is first composed in the mind's ear, and it is no great feat for professionals to be able to "hear" a musical score simply by reading it. But a deaf performer? To hit all the right notes, to play in an ensemble or in front of an orchestra...
Gabay thought the $18,000 price tag for They Might Be Giants, 20 percent more than the cost for Blind Melon, would sway some voters...
Harvard physicists lobbied extensively inWashington to save the supercollider--writingletters and visiting legislators--but were unableto sway vote...
When Fidel Castro and Deng Xiaoping die, Communism's last major scions will be gone. No successor in either Cuba or China has the same personal sway these two rulers have wielded. In China, by far the more important of the two nations, Communism appears to have devolved into a heavily regulated, semi-legal form of capitalism. Only North Korea, whose development program for nuclear weapons makes the news every week, can take the role of menacing outpost of Communism. Still, more nations than the United States would want to have a hand in the quelling of a belligerent nuclear...