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Attending a Dar Williams concert is more than simply listening to incredible music, it's participating in "The Dar Experience." Dar weaves together intelligence, quirkiness, humor and lush melodic arrangements that entertain and enlighten. Only she could craft pop songs out of a failed 17th-century Polish messianic cult, psychotherapy or the anti-Vietnam activities of former priest Daniel Berrigan. Her radio-ready single, "What do you Love More than Love" skews off center with its focus on Buddhism. Even Dar recognizes the unlikely nature of her topics, joking between songs...
Finally, after a long and grueling search, Jan. 7, 1971marked Bok's official appointment, making him the first president since the 17th century to have attended a college other than Harvard...
Paul Wylie '91, the 1992 Olympic silver medalist, hosted all three performances for the 17th consecutive year...
...team placed a disappointing 17th last year, but improved 44 seconds this time around to finish within 15 seconds of the German National team...
Koetsu made ceramics too. In fact, he is seen in Japan as one of the two greatest potters of the 17th century, the other being Nomomura Nisei. But Nisei was a professional, and he specialized in such tea utensils as caddies and incense jars. The amateur Koetsu sometimes worked with potters and sometimes commissioned pieces from them; his approval became a signature of authorship. His passion was tea bowls--the "active," intimately handled objects of a ceremony that, imported from China, had been turned by its first Japanese grandmaster, Sen No Rikyu, into a cultural rite linked to Zen Buddhism...