Word: twang
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...join the Harvard coterie until 1954. He was born with a flat twang accent in 1928 in Fort Worth and worked through an M. A. at U. C. L. A. on a Native Son of the Golden West fellowship. With a new doctorate he spent the Korean War as an historian for the Joints Chiefs of Staff. In 1954 he came to Harvard as an instructor and has wandered up the academic hierarchy to full professor...
...East Germany. Now Socialist Willy Brandt, who is scheduled to be installed as the West's new Chancellor next week, is calling for reduced tensions in Central Europe and for closer links between the two Germanys, just short of formal diplomatic recognition. Speaking in his high-pitched Saxon twang, Ulbricht reiterated his old demand for full recognition, which would be unacceptable to Bonn. Russia's Brezhnev seemed far more conciliatory. "We would be pleased about a more realistic approach in West Germany," he said, "and would be prepared to act accordingly...
...poignant force. With staggering ease, Baiko also dominates the second number on the program, Kagami-Jishi (The Mirror Lion Dance), in which he plays a shy flower-loving maiden who turns into the king of beasts. (All female roles are played by men in Kabuki theater.) The three-stringed twang of the samisen haunts the entire evening like a choral book of lamentations...
...rock transformed the pop scene even more. For last year's John Wesley Harding, Dylan went to Nashville to get an authentic country flavor-thereby kicking off a whole new wave of interest in country music and the Nashville sound. It was not so much a country twang that Dylan seemed to be after, but rather a simple way to say simple things...
...blue jeans, a blue shirt, a brown vest, and glasses. His shaggy brown hair curled around his ears. The door to the room squeaked open just wide enough for the head of a girl to stick in. From beyond the door came some giggles, and then the distinct Cambridge twang of a high school student floated into the room, "Look, they're playing dead...