Word: turneritis
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...doing legal transcription and computer programming, respectively. "Work is just what most people do," he says. "Including us." Members of FOW don't lionize work, but they don't condemn it either. Rock bands traditionally write about white-collar work as corrupt (the Beatles' Taxman) or for suckers (Bachman-Turner Overdrive's Takin' Care of Business). FOW write about it the way country and folk singers write about manual labor: as a fact of life. Besides, Schlesinger adds, the life of a nonsuperstar rock band is not that far removed from a lot of day jobs: "We spend most...
...Boston City Councillor Charles H. “Chuck” Turner ’62 attended the rally yesterday and read out loud a letter of support signed by himself and seven other elected city officials, which criticized the University’s failure to educate its students about “moral intelligence...
...country or track and field team requires much more than the expertise of one person. While Saretsky and assistant distance coach Ricardo Santos focus on the middle and long distance runners, other assistant coaches are able to specialize and focus on individuals with other talents.Take field events coach Paul Turner, for example. His Harvard athletes have earned All-America honors 12 times and set 24 Harvard school records—specialization in its finest form.“I know strengths, I know my weaknesses,” said Saretsky.Santos is also a young distance coach whose previous...
...become old, the young Arctic Monkeys have, with “Favourite Worst Nightmare,” done it again. They’ve released another phenomenally listenable album of pounding guitars and even harder (read: more scathing) lyrics. Once again, lead singer and guitarist Alex Turner and the other Monkeys from Sheffield, England, give us a delicious taste of blue-collar anger. This time around, the guitars might be a little louder and the sound a bit fuller, but the disc stays true to the promise and spirit of the group’s debut. The album is structured...
...When reflecting on how he felt about his experiences with the situation, Tim D. Turner ’09, who is from a small southern town, remarked, “You know extreme poverty and homelessness exist, but to actually see people in sleeping bags was shocking...