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...Illustrated Magazine. The term"photojournalism" had not yet been coined, butthere was an increasing realization throughout thenewspaper industry that photographs had becomeindispensable to a modern newspaper andpractically every Sunday paper in the country wasgroping its way toward the new age of photographywith a rotogravure section. The bi-weeklyIllustrated contained bland photos of posed shots,but it was the beginning of what is now thephotography board, and with that the modernCrimson was born...
Except possibly those mornings the reviews for his shows come out. With the apparent end of Andrew Lloyd Webber's string of hits, Wildhorn has taken over as the middlebrow melodist critics love to hate. His soaring ballads are dismissed as bland pop geared for easy-listening radio; his shows are scorned as cut-rate imitations of Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables. ("The man writes galumphing, dunderheaded musicals that make...everything by Andrew Lloyd Webber seem like great art"--Newsday.) But he is a musical populist and proud of it. "Lyrics can be hard to grasp," he says...
...Aibel is right to lament the state of "puny, bland, generic" bagels at Harvard (column, Dec. 3). He would be glad to know, however, that the bagels at C'est Bon on Mass. Ave. are surprisingly warm, fluffy and flavorful. In fact, they sometimes almost pass for the real New York thing. But at the end of the day, the price of a real bagel is 85 cents plus round trip fare on the Delta Shuttle to New York. Not a bad deal--you get a free copy of "Foreign Affairs" on the flight. --Benjamin Lebwohl...
...confusion both as to the facts of this election and the role of the Undergraduate Council president. Of the major candidates, only Beth A. Stewart '00 has shown herself capable of leading Harvard's student government. The staff seemed to deliberately inflate Ben Hulse, a competent enough but rather bland council member, so as to avoid endorsing a candidate whom they see as overly attentive to the "bread and butter" issues of student life and neglectful of Burmese students and strawberry pickers. Our question for the staff: "If these simple student-oriented issues are so self-evident...
Given the admittedly bland tastes of the committee, why do the names of the candidates have to be secret, anyway. Last year, the names of various potential speakers--including the comedian Jerry Seinfeld, the actor Tom Hanks and the eventual Class Day speaker, record-producer Quincy Jones--did not become public until spring. (Attention candidates for the council presidency: ever consider sunshine laws at Harvard?) Of course, the intricacies of procedure are in place for good reason, i.e. to "protect the candidates," in the words of one committee member. This translates to "We want control." Would not a ballot with...