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...unfortunate things about jazz is that either someone is revered in the jazz community as a great artist and the music isn’t appreciated by the masses because it’s difficult to listen to… or the music is very popular, and often has less content, has less artistic integrity,” Everett says. “Somehow he’s been able to do both...
...Peace” to play “Just a Housewife” on the piano. A group of six female Harvard students began to sing the uncharacteristically pessimistic song: “All I am is / Just a housewife / Just a housewife, nothing great / What I do is ‘out of fashion’/ What I feel is out of date.” The six actresses started twirling around the broomsticks they were holding, spinning as they sang the somber song. “I’m afraid it is unimpressive...
...sense of integration. It appears that almost no attention was paid to the track sequencing, and the songs proceed in a decidedly clunky manner. This is illustrative perhaps of a lack of attention to the overall feel of the album, which ends up seeming like a collection of great songs pushed thoughtlessly together. There is also perhaps a certain hastiness in the way in which “Wu Massacre” has been pushed out for public consumption. The last two songs clearly serve as appalling filler, and “Criminology 2.5” even features...
...Americans are great forgetters.” So declares reporter Welborn McIntyre in one of the oldest fragments of Ralph Ellison’s unfinished second novel, “Three Days Before the Shooting....” Previously available only in heavily-edited form as “Juneteenth,” it is a work in which the most significant voices are those dedicated to memory and to the preservation and interpretation of experience—whether through reporting, storytelling, preaching, or even prophecy. McIntyre’s proclamation stands as a challenge to an entire nation...
...Lincoln Memorial. Looking up into Lincoln’s eyes with “their sad revelation of what it means to be a man of vulnerable heart and floundering mind who found clinging to an elusive ideal more desirable than all the pride and glory of great wealth and great armies,” Hickman exclaims to himself, ”Yes! And with all I know about the things you had to do to be you and remain yourself—Yes! You are one of the few who ever earned the right to be called...