Word: concert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reality: This one contains two outright fabrications. The Suzanne Vega concert was so poorly attended that the council lost money hand over fist, had to take out a loan from BayBanks to cover their costs, and attempted to renege on their agreement with Vega to donate a portion of the concert's proceeds to AIDS research...
...excellent reputation," the council so thoroughly bungled its efforts to sponsor concerts that Harvard is reportedly blacklisted in the music business. Former Council Chair Evan J. Mandery '89 told a Crimson reporter that one concert promoter advised him that the council would probably never attract a performer to Harvard again...
Although the ticket prices were a bit steep ($25 for "partial view"), the proceeds went to help the homeless in Cambridge--certainly an important cause. Along with the concert program, everyone received a newspaper, explaining the problems facing the area's growing homeless population and the programs the concert proceeds were going to help...
During the intermission, a woman from WBZ-TV--one of the concert sponsors--came on stage. Instead of asking the crowd to volunteer to help the area's homeless, she merely thanked them for coming...
...thousands of concert-goers clapped and shouted, proud of themselves for buying tickets to a concert they wanted to see anyway...