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...DIED. GORDON COOPER, 77, U.S. astronaut who flew the last mission of the pioneering Mercury space program; in Ventura, California. Cooper set records for time spent and distance traveled in space; his 191-hour Gemini mission in 1963 helped demonstrate that a future moon trip was possible. With his career cut short because of what he called "a lot of in-house politics," he retired from the Air Force in 1970 and became president of a company that tested and raced cars and pioneered the installation of jet engines. Once asked who the best fighter pilot was, he answered...
Laughs were notably absent from Beck's last album, Sea Change, which was full of the kind of beautiful breakup melodies and brutal words normally associated with Gordon Lightfoot and Sylvia Plath. Beck promises a touch of sincerity but adds, "There's definitely a lot more jokes and kicking cardboard boxes and rattling chains and playing slide guitar. This album is full of raggediness." Contributing to the raggediness are song titles like Guero, E-Pro and Brazilica, as well as a guest appearance by Jack White of the White Stripes. Beck appeared in a White Stripes video last year...
...charm, he was the godfather of deconstruction, a critical approach that emphasizes ambiguity; self-reference and multiple, shifting meanings; and unravels texts by teasing out the latent contradictions in them. Although his writings are notoriously elusive, their influence on literary criticism, and the culture at large, was immeasurable. DIED. GORDON COOPER, 77, one of NASA's original seven astronauts; in Ventura, California. Famously casual in his approach to pilot training - and famously brilliant at it nonetheless - Cooper flew twice into orbit, as the sole pilot of the last Mercury mission in 1963 and as commander of Gemini...
Dylan will reportedly perform at Harvard Gordon Athletic Center on Nov. 21, the date slated for a Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) sponsored concert. Several members of the HCC declined to comment last night...
...least that’s the case for Murstein, who will hit the Gordon Track and Tennis Center on Friday for some heavy-duty networking as part of what he calls “the intense recruiting process”—the culminating Career Fair, an integral part of Harvard’s culture...