Word: vocalisms
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...pick their favorite of competing performers by cheering or jeering. Before the show, co-emcee Lawrence E. Adjah ’06 instructed the audience, including parents visiting for freshman weekend, to “get up and dance.” The audience on Saturday night was vocal and energetic when they enjoyed acts, but if a performer failed to please, the sold-out auditorium resounded with boos, at which point the “Sandman,” a post filled this year by Jay R. Lundy ‘09, ran on stage with a broom...
...chairman must choose which way to lean. Greenspan, like Paul Volcker before him, is a proven inflation fighter. But Bernanke shows signs of tolerating rising prices. When the economy was threatened with deflation (generally falling prices) a few years ago, "he among all the Fed governors was most vocal about the need to generate inflation," says Alan Wild, a global fixed-income manager for Barings Bank. In November 2002, Bernanke publicly spoke of options, citing Milton Friedman's famous "helicopter drop" of money into the pockets of consumers via tax rebates to stimulate spending, which was radical stuff from...
...people, and tried out for a number of bands. After Carbone read Gentler’s ad in the Phoenix, they arranged to meet at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square. Of their first meeting, Anthony says, “We found that we were a perfect musical and vocal match.” Since then, the two have been inseparable. Says Evan, “I feel incredibly blessed to have found Anthony. To be on the same page when it comes to art is truly awesome. It almost never happens” STARDOM, HO! But in present form...
...students who wish to join the club) and, as one could imagine, the comments are rarely based on any sort of merit. The Isis’ book is rife with vapid and positive evaluations, as well as harsh critiques based on punches’ accessories, shrill vocal tones, social faux pas, and dating infidelities...
...They're a very, very vocal minority. The numbers of people that I hear from are so small, but the letters are incredibly mean. I'm "dumbing down the country." They really can't insult you enough. I guess there's a lot I don't understand about it. I don't think that any of those people would say, "Don't play with little Sarah next door; she's five, and she doesn't have her verb tenses down yet. No, no, no; wait until her grammar starts improving." But for some reason, if you put that same little...