Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harberger comes, the HIID can kiss all the anthropologists good-bye. The chairman of the Anthropology Department, David Maybury-Lewis, who is also on the HIID governing board, has been one of the most vocal opponents of the appointment. And members of the department are unanimously opposed to the appointment. The HIID was in the process of searching for a staff anthropologist--that search is now frozen. Maybury-Lewis has been one of the few members of the Harvard faculty sincerely interested in working with the HIID, and Harberger's appointment would end the link...
Twice a candidate for City Council, forever a vocal advocate of change, Caragianes says he likes his neighborhood simply because it is a neighborhood...
...from examination of its eye sockets, Aegyptopithecus, unlike some of its rivals, was a diurnal creature, one that was active mostly in daylight. This implies that Aegyptopithecus lived in groups, rather than by itself as do many nocturnal animals. It also means that there was probably extensive visual and vocal communication between the member animals. Such socialization would have put stresses on them, requiring them to be more assertive, courageous and competitive than if they had lived by themselves-which in turn could have fostered brain growth. Indeed, says Kay, Aegyptopithecus' cranial capacity of about...
Hynde's own compositions don't fare as well. Each is built aroung a technically proficient guitar, amply provided by Scott, and her own diverse vocal emissions, usually lyrics but sometimes grunts or pants, which contrast well with the powerful guitar...
...judges, and the very vocal figure-skating crowds, what had been exciting in a young princess was disquieting and vaguely mystifying in an ice queen...