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...Charles? edge toward popularity in the late 50s coincided with a shift from the 12-bar format to pop?s favorite descending chord pattern (C, C7, F, F-minor) in the choruses of ?Ain?t That Love,? ?Swanee River Rock? and ?That?s Enough? and the release of ?This Little Girl of Mine? and his dynamite cover of Sy Oliver?s ?Yes Indeed.? Listeners came to expect the revival-show tambourine (rattled by co-producer Jerry Wexler on some sides), the backing girl group (the Cookies, later known as the Raelettes) offer response to his call, the bluesy-jazzy...
...Hopefully between now and next year people’s attitudes will shift and be more accepting of everybody having the equal rights to marriage,” he said...
Hyman calls this shift “mission creep...
...year’s two major concerts, Guster and Busta Rhymes, were catalyzed by a clear shift in the attitude in the student activities office, says Justin H. Haan ’05, chair of the council-affiliated Harvard Concert Commission...
...range of perceptions reflects the ways in which Harvard has changed over the past few decades, moving away from its roots as a college serving the elites of New England towards its new role as the undergraduate portion of the world’s foremost research university. Doubtless, the shift will continue, and will probably accelerate—but administrators, alumni and students alike should recognize that Harvard abandons its past at its peril...