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...someday, FAS administrators may look back on the halcyon days of yore when graduate students were hungry and desperate for teaching jobs. Right now they are worried about a disturbing trend—the steadily decreasing numbers of graduate students willing to teach classes...
...radio feel is nothing new to Beck, who showed his folk muscle previously on 1994’s One Foot in the Grave and on 1997’s more eclectic Mutations, which up until now were his quietest and most beautiful records. But where the folky Beck of yore lamented empty mining towns, the new Beck wails over empty Kleenex boxes. “You got to drive all night / just to feel like you’re ok,” he sings, with the wrinkled voice and lyrics of a hitchhiking Gordon Lightfoot on his last trip...
...pantomimes by holding out his hands and moving them up and down like a scale. He talks about how he angered his fans when, after the government lifted his ban and he was allowed to play to audiences again, he recorded some songs about the Burmese Kings of yore written by a friend he used to jam with but who had since joined the military. He was called a sellout for kowtowing to the government. Ethnic fans were outraged, as the Kings had subjugated their people. Another official requested he make an album about the nation. He agreed again...
...sailors and dignitaries: "I'm so happy to be once again onboard Ark Royal. You see, I launched her and her predecessor [in 1950]. So it's wonderful to feel that now she's going to be at sea and guarding our shores just as in the days of yore ... Captain, splice the main brace" ? a reference to the old naval custom of an extra tot of rum, a round for a job well done. On the day before Easter, her job well done, the Queen Mother died peacefully in her sleep at Royal Lodge, her residence at Windsor, with...
...final act, the fluttering fans and swirling gowns that graced Korean royal courts of yore met the boisterous yet elegant thumping drums of the farming and commoner classes...