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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boxing had always seemed more enticing to him than a career in law. He skipped college and twice dropped out of law school. Even after passing the bar, he offered so little promise that for a year no law firm would hire him. After an undistinguished career, he became a federal judge because of his capacities as a political fund raiser. Such are hardly the credentials for stature. But when the nation faced its gravest constitutional crisis since the Civil War, he provided a fresh instance of the American dictum: In times of extremity, men grow into their roles...
Eliot describes the ever deepening frustration Ochs endured as his songs and his career failed to reach the minds of his contemporaries. It all began, though, in 1962 in the Greenwich village folk clubs, which then featured singers like Peter Yarrow, Dave Van Ronk, and Bob Dylan. It was a time when "anyone with a pocketful of tunes, a guitar, and the guts to get up on stage was singing folk music." Ochs started out with songs like "One More Parade and "The Power and the Glory...
...Ochs had to contend with Dylan, the king of the folk scene. Throughout the book Eliot creates the book's pathos by contrasting Ochs' career with Dylan's. The first album, All the News That's Fit to Sing. sold 40,000 copies. It came out at the same time, Eliot notes, as Dylan's gold album, Bringing It All Back Home...
BUSTED GUT: Senior Sally Roberts ended her varsity career with the weekend matches, going out in fine style. "Sally reaffirmed her ability as a doubles player," Felske said after the tournament...Though the team season ended in Northampton, Felske said he may enter Richmond and Martha Roberts in the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (EAIAW) Regional Qualifying tournament (May 18, 19 at Yale). It ali depends on the players "school pressures," Felske said...
...captain and coach of the six-man side, Roger Martin, who along with Greg Nitzkowski capped a four-year career, said yesterday, "We had to play extremely hard to win, but we dug down deep and went out with a bang...