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...school, many RH compers arrive with a more general interest in indie rock and punk. For them, the comp process is an invaluable learning tool. “If you don’t really have a context for it, you might find it abrasive or you might not understand where it’s coming from, why it might be important in the genre,” Humphreville says. “But I think the way the comp process works, you build up to that...
...feels that this lack of presence stems from the tendency for rap to be misunderstood. “I don’t think people at Harvard appreciate it enough,” Lee says. “They don’t understand that you listen to it exactly like you listen to poetry—for similes, metaphors and alliteration... Even songs that seem to be ‘about nothing’ have a real poetic element to them, and it’s wasted on people who don’t take the time to think...
...first poem, Wright suggests that life has already been written “on the flyleaf of the Book of Snow.” Later he looks at language not as a tool of the “merciless” future but of his own understanding. In “Sundown Blues,” he realizes “There are some things that can’t be conveyed—/ description, for instance.” In the very next line he goes on to try: “The sundown light on that dog-hair...
...learned to be a little bit skeptical from my dad, to understand that you can believe in your country and work for your country without having to accept everything that the government does,” he says...
...researchers added an extensive section called “Choosing Health Drinks” earlier this week to Nutrition Source—a Web site maintained by HSPH faculty that aims to translate nutrition research into easy-to-understand information for the public and policy makers...