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...fact, he believes he is carrying the mantle of the great storytellers of all time, including himself among such epic figures as Homer, Vergil and Dante, as well as Bob Dylan, B.B. King, and John Coltrane. Albert B. Lord, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, and lecturer in Hum 9b, Oral and Popular Literature, calls Blue "sui-generis" though. Lord believes that Blue "does not really belong to any particular tradition in storytelling." He says that Blue relies on autobiographical material in an improvisational way. "As far as I know, Blue's stories are not those handed down among...
Matther Copel '79, who studied Blue's work carefully for a paper in Hum 9b last spring, finds two distinct types of stories in Blue's work: parodies of folk tales, like "Little Blue Riding Hood," and the autobiographical material, which Copel calls "totally oral." Copel doesn't believe Blue has ever memorized any of his autobiographical work, and Blue himself denies even writing it down. "I never do a work the same way twice. I try to work like a jazz musician, blowing an old song from my soul, but blowing it ever new," he says. Blue sees...
...stage, and the rest is Harvard theater history. Last year the Premiere Society sponsored what turned out to be the hottest show in town: Do It Yourself, a collage of skits and songs written by Harvard students and Paul Cantor, who normally hosts a show of his own in Hum 118. Do It Yourself was a real bonanza; night after night, the Lowell House JCR veritably creaked with Harvard notables crushed together at well beyond the room's capacity...
...species of bryophytes (that's what a moss is--a bryophyte--I learned that yesterday), there were only three people in the course. That's a ratio of about 8333 mosses to each person. I can't deal with it. I mean, I wasn't expecting Hum 103, but for me to take a course around here, I have to be able to get lost...
...Loeb has rarely seemed so comfortable as this past weekend. If "Party" was bicentennially in honor of the American musical, it will do honor to its hosts as long as people hum "New York, New York...