Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jill Ruckelshaus is not a typical political wife. She holds a master's degree in education from Harvard. She prefers backyard basketball to black-tie dinners, and a quiet family life in a Seattle suburb to the social whirl of Washington, D.C. A decade ago, her vocal support of women's rights earned her the nickname "the Gloria Steinem of the Republican Party...
...passion the couples build on rests more with their vocal intonations and physical movements than with any nudity. The audience gradually adjusts to the highly personal subject matter before it, as we watch 10 completely different relationships each with its own problems, intimacy, and passion...
...stage, Robinson majored in English but continued to concentrate on his vocal talents. He began singing in church choirs at home in Houston and remains a devotee of gospel music. "Unfortunately, you don't get a lot of that in an academic community," he says. As a result, he has worked off campus, singing at weddings and in church choirs, and he helped to start a gospel choir group...
Politics at Harvard had never been as rewarding as in Bremen, despite the brief appearance of a vocal conservative undergraduate faction in the 1981-82 school year. Elliott led the Reagan primary effort on campus early in 1980 but relinquished control by the fall because of commitments at home and "a sense of futility about the whole thing here. "He recalls a freshman year conversation with a friend, which shifted from religion to politics: "She turned to me with an intense gaze and said, 'How can you morally justify being a Republican?' I just had no idea how to respond...
...Barney Frank '62 (D-Mass.), a vocal union supporter, said that he held "real respect for Harvard," but was disappointed with what organizers termed a disregard for workers' needs...