Word: harpe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sean Potts and Sean Keane work for the Irish post office. Martin Fay is a purchasing agent for a Dublin electronics company. Paddy Moloney is an administrator. Derek Bell has been an orchestral harp player for ten years. Peadar Mercier is a construction foreman and the father of ten children. Michael Tubridy is a consulting engineer. They are, in short, about as average a bunch as any country can produce and not the usual candidates for pop stardom. But when they sit down together to play, they are something else again: the Chieftains, Ireland's leading folk band...
...music of the Chieftains is an amalgam of two distinct Irish traditions: the single-voiced, unaccompanied pipe tunes of the folk people, and the richer, harmonized rustle of the Irish harp. It is the careful blending of the two that gives the Chieftains their special sound. Superficially, that sound seems fairly unsophisticated, resembling something halfway between a Renaissance dance ensemble and a bluegrass band. Bluegrass, of course, owes much to British folk music...
...junta thinks the U.S. should be grateful for the replacement of Allende by an anti-Communist regime and cannot understand why U.S. Senators, journalists, et al. harp on "human rights." Said Pinochet: "We are better friends to the United States than the United States...
...charges that he exploits tensions but offers no solutions, Wallace and Joe Azbell, his director of communications, promise a different sort of campaign. "We're no longer going to be simplistic," says Azbell. "We're going to provide answers for the problems of America, not just harp on the problems themselves. We're going to do things the Wallace way, but we'll take ideas wherever we can find them. We read books by Adlai Stevenson, Eugene McCarthy, Richard Scammon [the political analyst], Khrushchev and Nixon...
This "funny little school," as Schneider calls it, gazes down upon Mt. Auburn St. From its vantage point atop Elsie's, existing as an isolated, anonymous island in the midst of Harvard. The director emphasizes its virtues, just as predictably as students harp on its considerable defects. In a sense, Manter Hall students are sacrificing standard high school facilities for special attention that they could not receive elsewhere. As one student remarks, "It's a pain, but it's an education...