Word: vocalism
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Whether moving and speaking Swahili to illustrate the function of vocal and physical gesture in storytelling or describing how scientists and dancers are collaborating to create work about the human genome, Foster provides a significant example of how to fruitfully combine a keen intellect with embodied creativity. And in the end, it’s all about the intersections in teaching and in art: “I give to you when you reach out to me. It’s what happens in the integration of the work and the observer...
...Ride,” an uninspired torch song in which Carey likens the pleasures of love to, surprise, a joy ride—not exactly the most potent of metaphors. Worse, Carey attempts to overshadow the track’s weak production with an excessively acrobatic vocal performance. At times it’s unclear whether she’s singing or just running through scales...
...that makes the game of catch-up that much harder. Against Princeton, the game was over in 10 minutes. Against Dartmouth and its outside arsenal, a 10-point first half deficit was a death sentence. And even in the comeback wins against Penn, coach Delaney-Smith was all too vocal about her team’s struggle to get things started at the first horn.“We don’t need to go down eight or 10—we should be playing defense that hard from the start.” Delaney-Smith said after...
...President Lawrence H. Summers may be on his way out, and for Harvard College students, his departure has hardly gone unnoticed.In recent weeks, as rumors buzzed of Summers’ impending resignation, students perked up their ears. As the storm clouds gathered, many of campus’ more politically vocal students were already airing their opinions, but when Summers officially announced his resignation, there was sharp increase in the volume of discussion among the College’s typically quiet student body. Owing to the obvious gravity of the issue, and perhaps Summers’ celebrity affectation among undergraduates, students...
...Republican Congress has been tiptoeing toward this moment for months, becoming less reluctant to challenge Bush as his approval rating stays mired in the low 40s. G.O.P. lawmakers are getting more vocal in challenging Bush's spending priorities, and his modest budget cuts on programs from farm aid to housing to student loans are running into election-year resistance, even as the legislators complain about the costs of his Medicare prescription-drug program. On Friday the coalition of House conservatives known as the Republican Study Committee sent a letter to the White House demanding more justification for Bush's spending...