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...fans that filled out the depleted ranks of the student section. Maybe Prasse-Freeman heard the catcall—the gym, only half-filled, was that quiet. Silent enough, in fact, to cause Sullivan to remark to his team during a timeout, “the atmosphere??s dead around here...
...restaurant after graduating. But he says he also had altruistic motives in reforming the Grille. “I was pissed off that there was no workable social center for everyone to hang out,” he says. He went for a “coffee house/bar atmosphere?? with low light and a hip-hop soundtrack. Erlich insists it was accidental that many of the employees were among Quincy House’s, well, hottest (“It was coincidental at first that the staff may have been good-looking,” he says...
...Dibbs, who could probably shatter a turntable with his forehead—pouring out their hearts in the most confrontational, hoarse-throated manner possible. Lyrical prowess and mic charisma became tools for assuaging fears of dull futures, wrecked love and artistic failure. That songs such as Atmosphere??s tinkling piano ballad “Abusing of the Rib” and the startlingly mundane anthem “Like Today” could incite such gleeful abandon is an achievement that surely cannot be overlooked. It was as if hip hop’s towering wall of machismo...
...Atmosphere??s hip hop looks past hollow braggadocio, reviving the music’s original impulse to reach out rather than push back. Slug sees no future in battle rhymes: “You can’t feed your kids with a battle rap. You can make your kids think you’re the dopest battle rapper in the world, but you can’t feed them.” Instead, he aligns himself with conscious emcees KRS-One and Chuck D, as well as songwriters like Tom Waits and Stevie Wonder...
...students had returned that fall, reassuring words had greeted them. Though the world beyond the Yard was embroiled in a seemingly endless war, an editorial in The Crimson had welcomed students with the promise that “there is still some security to be found in an academic atmosphere??temporary security from being called into the armed services, permanent security in the quest for truths even greater than world wars, and the insecure security of theories that explain what is happening in terms of law, nature, and experience...