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...election supplement. The Crimson, however, was not spared from the chaos. There was a party upstairs in our rental space and, as in Adams House, the music throbbed and the feet pounded overhead. Unlike Adams, though, the Crimson building was not constructed for all-purpose use. Each drum sequence shook the support beams. "The place," a friend said, "is going to crumble. Those people will come crashing through the roof, into the newsroom." We agreed that the computer network would be the first to go. That would be bad enough, we decided, but even worse, we'd then get scooped...
...Gabriel confesses his fears of loneliness over a moody, mid-tempo track, singing, "When my self-esteem is sinking, I like to be liked/ In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted/ 'Cos I love to be loved." Washing of the Water, with its slow piano-and-drum accompaniment, sounds hymnal. "River, oh river running deep," Gabriel implores, "Bring me something to take this pain away...
Culled from interviews, recreated verbatim, "Fires in the Mirror" is a desperate plea to the dying but precious art of listening. Of listening with both one's eyes and ears, when the scales have fallen away, when the drum beats intently within...
Since its first appearance at a 1955 Harvard-UMass football game, the eight-foot-tall drum has undergone the yearly wear and tear of sporting events and other band activities without the benefit of any serious repairs--until this summer...
When band members determined that the drum's two cowhide heads were in serious danger of falling apart, they launched a fund drive to repair the colossal instrument. Contributors included Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and other Harvard faculty, according to band Manager Victor W. Hwang...