Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Richard Dyer-Bennet sang at Cabot Hall last week, he wore a tuxedo. He had no raucous accent, no sack of coonskin tales, and his shoes and his guitar were clean. While Dyer-Bennet was less colorful than the night-club hand, he was more effective because he was a musician with folk-song only as part of his repertoire...
...Dyer-Bennett sang some traditional ballads, "Green sleeves," "Barbara Allen" and "Blow the Candles Out." The last had a tinge of bawdiness since it was written before "the moral gloom of our own period," when a little spice was taken for granted. Although he hinted that a little spice never hurts, Dyer-Bennett declined to sing anything bawdier...
...rest of the pieces were relatively unfamiliar: minnesong, Shubert songs, and works for the guitar. In explaining his program Dyer-Bennett defined himself as "not a balladeer but a minstrel: a musical entertainer who sings the accompaniment of a stringed instrument." One standard of a ministrel's success is whether he leaves his audience wanting one more song; that is what Dyer-Bennett...
Poet Robert Frost will also come to Radcliffe for a speech on Wednesday, April 12, in the Cabot Hall living room. Dean Small said she also hoped to bring Richard Dyer-Bennet to Radcliffe in May for a program of Ballads...
...Harry S. Dyer, director of the Bureau of Tests, announced that although these tests now produce reliable results, it will take at least three more years of research before they will be perfected. The Bureau administers these tests exclusively within the college, and draws its own conclusions, taking no results from any other source...