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...guitar work brought the song off. Beck has learned to achieve a double-tracked guitar sound by working in the middle registers of his fretboard and adding some vibrato to the chords. This all makes for a much fuller sound, particularly when combined with his tendency to play thick notes that are held for an instant on the fretboard (which he learned from blues guitarists...
PRINCETON-PENN - In the old days, Penn was know as a school that catered to Philadelphia rich boys who were too thick to get into Princeton. But times have changed, and Penn is a more diverse, democratic school drawing on rich and poor boys alike, from all parts of the country, who are too thick to get into not only Princeton, but Harvard and Yale as well. Old grads and undergrads at Penn's Homecoming today will share the ultimate satisfaction of the Ivy League neurotic-- the "you may have rejected us but we beat you in football" syndrome. Penn...
EVEN allowing for the partisan scandalmongering in which all candidates traffic, the nation's political air seems especially contaminated this year -thick with the taint of special favors, dirty money, interparty espionage, intimations of official power in the service of corporate friends. Nothing has yet been proved exactly, but the cloud hangs over Washington like an inversion. When Martha Mitchell fled to New York, taking her husband with her, she spoke a bit Delphicly about "all those dirty things that go on." Democratic polemicists suggest that the capital was not nearly so dirty until John Mitchell and Richard Nixon...
...oldest and least-mourned traditions: Dartmouth was the last of the eight schools to go coed. The reform came through the efforts of a man who is himself something of a novelty among Ivy League presidents, a computer expert and science-fiction buff who still speaks English with a thick Hungarian accent. As the chaos of rival songs faded away, John Kemeny just smiled: bringing women to Dartmouth had been one of his chief goals since he took over as president two years ago. "Dartmouth was incomplete without women," he says. "The environment without them was unnatural, and therefore education...
...Trained at the Moscow Art Theater, Tamiroff accompanied its repertory troupe on a tour of the U.S. in 1923 and stayed behind to act on Broadway. In 1932 he moved to Hollywood to begin a long film career that spanned more than 60 films. Although he never lost his thick Russian accent, Tamiroff plausibly played characters of nearly every nationality and won two Academy Award nominations for supporting actor-as the sinister Chinese warlord in The General Died at Dawn, and as the cowardly Spanish guerrilla leader Pablo in For Whom the Bell Tolls...