Word: duked
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Today, Gay Studies courses are taught at programs at City College of San Francisco, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California Santa Cruz, City University of New York and Duke. This year Harvard has its first course on "Topics in Gay Male Representation" taught by Professor of English D. A. Miller...
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Philip A. Griffiths and Gerhard Casper are provosts at Duke University and the University of Chicago respectively, and appear on the provisional medium list...
...book, Stomping the Blues, was a seminal work on African-American music. Murray, now 74, took Marsalis to museums and bookstores and got him reading "everything from Malraux and Thomas Mann to the Odyssey and the Iliad." In particular, he filled him in on the life and works of Duke Ellington, whom Murray considers the "quintessential American composer...
...playing and composing but also to a whole music-centered philosophy about American life and culture. Sitting in the sparsely furnished living room of his Manhattan brownstone, with three Louis Armstrong statuettes peering down from the mantelpiece, he confidently mingles allusions to Picasso and the Iliad with appreciations of Duke Ellington and childhood anecdotes. The hardwood floor is littered with the toys of his two sons, Wynton Jr., 2, and Simeon, six months; their mother Candace Stanley, 28, is doing postgraduate work at New York University. (Marsalis has put the four-story house on the market...