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...liner notes to the album, Allen Ginsberg describes Dylan's singing in One More Cup of Coffee as "Hebraic cantillation," and indeed as Dylan chants the first verse of the song, you can imagine him as a cantor in a local synagogue chanting the Song of Songs...
...virtuoso performance rather than content), was not shy about amending Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet was set in a Polish village, and Friar Laurence was recast as a Reform rabbi. The famous performers originating in the ghetto included Al Jolson, the Marx Brothers, George Jessel, George Burns, Eddie Cantor, Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice...
Then there are those who have tasted athletics and decided that it is not for them. Paul A. Cantor '66, assistant professor of English, was a varsity fencer while at Harvard and compiled a perfect record of zero wins and eight losses during his career. When asked what he does now for exercise, Cantor replied, "Are you kidding? Now I do nothing. The closest thing to athletics I do now is foosball." Cantor quickly added that with time and effort he has become "an excellent goalie with a good defensive stance...
...sketch that raises the Harvard in-joke to a true comic art form comes from a surprising source in this student-written show--Paul Cantor, assistant professor of English. "Let's Make the Grade" is a game show hosted by a bouncy emcee named Sever Hall and featuring prizes like a year's supply of A papers and admission to a graduate school of your choice. The first contestant, one Mary Sue Literati, starts out trading her admission letter to Yale for the surprise behind Door Three--which turns out to be admission to a selective concentration, History and Literature...
...bench, there is the nucleus of last year's once-beaten freshmen team (Cox, Steve Irion, Mark Johnson, and Mike Cantor), ex-Classics' performer Gordon Congden, and returnee Jeff Hill, when he recovers from a knee injury...