Word: unfamiliar
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Such a predicament should not be unfamiliar. I read these words recently in the context of also having heard a talk given by Manning Marable, the eminent African-American historian at Columbia University, as part of the 2004 DuBois Lectures at the W.E.B DuBois Institute. Marable’s final lecture noted the shift in the politics of affirmative action that had taken place during the latter half of the 1990s and insisted that the current generation of students re-engage with the concerns of his generation. As he reflected at one point, his own personal experience with Jim Crow...
...Project aims to link cross-continental cultures. Ma said he was inspired to found the effort because of his own career travels. “In my musical journey, I have had the opportunity to learn from a wealth of different musical voices… As we interact with unfamiliar musical traditions we encounter voices that are not exclusive to one community. We discover transnational voices that belong to one world…and [when] we enlarge our view of the world we also deepen our understanding of our own lives and culture...
Cantor notes that, as an audience member, “listening to a singer-songwriter takes energy—you have to listen and appreciate the words of unfamiliar music or else it might seem pretty boring...
...years but is still developing. He draws influence from “everything in the Western tradition” but is partial to French music after Debussy and jazz of all kinds. “You are what you hear, and I hope to be hearing a lot more unfamiliar music that will influence my future work,” he says...
Twenty-five years from now, when the Class of 2004 returns to Cambridge for its College reunion, its members will be greeted by an unfamiliar campus. According to an upcoming report from the Undergraduate Life Task Force, science labs might not be the only buildings set to be relocated across the Charles. At least four, and up to eight, undergraduate Houses may end up anchoring Harvard’s Allston campus, a move that could shift the center of gravity of undergraduate life across the river...