Word: thrall
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...seemed just as enthused as we were at the discovery that underneath it all lies a pretty kick ass jam band, able to hold an audience in its thrall for more than a few minutes at a time...
Elizabeth S. Thrall ’04, managing editor of the liberal monthly Perspective, said that while she thought the mailing was useful to first-years, she saw room for improvement...
...Schwartz’s voice rings through the house, David C. Marshall ’07 forces himself out of his comfortable position and walks downstairs; he can’t hear a word through the racket. Elizabeth S. Thrall ’05 sits quietly at a desk, a cell phone cradled in her ear; Russell M. Anello ’04 is upstairs making his calls...
...record industry will tell you, is a super-monster smash; dig it. It is performed in an illogical world that is both flat and round, where 33 1/3 r.p.m. exerts a fearful centrifugal force. The U.S., particularly that extensive tribe of its citizenry under 30, is electronically in thrall to the thrumming, incessant sound of music, a phenomenon that has handed the record business a supremely marketable mania. Every week, hundreds of records are poured into radio stations by promoters trying to crack the crucial list of Top 40 hits that get saturation air play. Every year...
...were imperialism, fascism and Stalinism," writes Christopher Hitchens in his wonderful book Why Orwell Matters. Those were Orwell's topics, and he was right on all of them: able to pierce the hypocrisy of imperial adventures, to warn of the deathly appeal of fascism, and - when many were in thrall to the supposed achievements of the Soviet Union - to state baldly that Stalin was a "disgusting murderer." It is because Orwell was unflinching in his opposition to all the totalitarianisms of the past century that he has such a bewildering range of acolytes - liberals unable to stomach the idea that...