Word: concert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months ago, the Jimmy Cliff song we would have dedicated to the Undergraduate Council and their efforts to get a popular singer for a Harvard concert would have been "Sitting In Limbo." Happily, we can now ask Cliff to play an even better song--"You Can Get It If You Really Want...
...Council can at least point to having finalized plans for what could be a tremendous concert. The Jimmy Cliff show has all the makings of an event to be remembered for years, the likes of which have not been seen at this school since Bob Marley played in Harvard Stadium back in July...
...excited just yet. The Council can only begin to regain our trust by showing that it actually can pull off a large-scale event. After all, we have had news of plans before--even of confirmed concert dates--only to have these hopes snatched away at the last moment. The Council voted against having Chuck Berry play here last year after the Council's representative had bargained and supposedly finalized an agreement with his promoters. Even though Berry had agreed to play, Harvard was left without a concert...
...concert happens, the Council will have succeeded in proving that it can serve a useful social function. The Council has many rivers to cross before it earns our respect as an effective student government, but Jimmy Cliff's music could go a long way in doing just that...
...half-decade later that McFerrin "heard my subconscious tell me to sing -- the result, no doubt, of years of soul- searching and a nagging voice that kept pressing me to take risks." Now the risks have paid off handsomely, and exhaustingly. Feeling tapped out, McFerrin ended his latest concert tour on Sept. 30, and will now work from home, where he can spend more time with Debbie, his wife of 13 years, and their two sons, Taylor, 7, and Jevon...