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...Hilles. Hilles Library is right at your fingertips and it is the quietest, funkiest library at Harvard. Often, you find River folk up at Hilles seeking a place where they can actually get work done. And a bonus of this underutilized library is its fourth floor. Though the cafeteria there is not operational nowadays, the empty penthouse, as it is called, is worth visiting. The Morse Music Library, also on the floor, is really amazing--who would have thought Harvard owns George Carlin records...

Author: By Joe E. Subotnik, | Title: So You've Been Exiled Up North? | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...this disc include the"Cannonball" Adderly's mournful ballad "Mercy,Mercy, Mercy," and the four tracks by Booker T.and MG's (the only band that reallydeserves the label as `the hardest working band inshow biz'): "Green Onions" (which was named whenbass player Lewis Steinberg was asked to think ofthe funkiest thing he could), the molasses-thick"Hip Hug-Her," the ghetto-blues soundtrack to the1969 movie Uptight, "Time is Tight" and"Hang `Em High," an organ-driven remaking of thetheme song for the Clint Eastwood spaghettiwestern of the same name...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Of Tango, Bluegrass, and surf Music... | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...Funky. Very Funky. Funkiest guy in the dorm. Extremely funky." -Jenny Mayher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Slice of Life | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...there are those in Boylston--including some wearing the funkiest outfits--who deny the grad students' tendencies towards the tres tres chic. One new staff member who was wearing an overdyed denim dress and Western-style turquoise jewelry says she has "no general sense" of the uniqueness of a Romance Language fashion...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: Graduate Student Fashions: From The Tres Tres Chic To Just Plain Old Tres Chic | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

...City was not only the boldest political anthem of the '80s, it was also the funkiest. Besides writing the song, Van Zandt was the main man behind the album, the video and the documentary about Sun City, which brought hard rock together with hard facts about South African politics. Freedom -- No Compromise continues that same tough tradition of humanist ideology and high steppin'. "The trickiest part is not to be rhetorical," Van Zandt says, "but to make the songs into an emotional, human communication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: That Road Is All Mine | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

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