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...lately, Section 18 (except for a recently inspired Harvard band) has been about as funny as a Hum 103 section meeting, and about as inspiring as lunch in the Union...

Author: By Williame Stedman, | Title: Rock Steady | 2/25/1976 | See Source »

Other classes in which the number of students subscribing exceeded expectations by a large amount include Hum 103, in which 800 students, 200 more than predicted, are expected to take the course, and Statistics 102, where 100 students signed up instead of the expected...

Author: By Mark D. Stegall, | Title: Professors Blame Crowding On Limited Course Options | 2/14/1976 | See Source »

...spiritual occasion. It was heavily advertised in advance by posters bearing the words "BUTTFUCK '74" and a picture of Yo Mo Dobro Jo, billed as a 19 year-old perfect asshole; beneath Yo Mo Dobro Jo, who was seated in something like a lotus position, was the inscription "Hum Tits to Yo Mo Dobro Jo." The poster aroused the ire of local residents and administrators but, a Buttfuck says, "we persuaded them that it would only be a nice, fun, kinky party...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: God and Bladderball At Yale | 11/21/1975 | See Source »

...just so much to do and watch for." It was a large office/sanctum on the second floor of 395 Concord Avenue, carpeted, bookshelved, same fake wood paneling as everything else, spattered with flag plaques and Statue of Liberty trophies, with typewriters pittering in the outer offices, and a casual hum of secretaries. The jowled, paunchy, business-suited Robert Welch of the Society's official portrait would have fit right in here--a solid, substantial businessman you would want to make candy for your kids. But the frail, pale just-this-side-of-the-nursing-home Robert Welch who told...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: The Birchers Are Busy in Belmont | 11/19/1975 | See Source »

Sometimes there are interruptions. At work on Up the Sandbox, Goldenberg received daily phone calls from Leading Lady Barbra Streisand. Since shooting sessions lasted far into the night, the actress rang punctually at 2:30 a.m. "Hum me the music for tomorrow," she would request. During one predawn chat, Streisand asked Goldenberg if the movie's final measures could be extended into a song. "Sure," he replied. "Have it by 4," purred La Barbra. "I wrote like mad," Goldenberg recalls. "When she called, I hummed her the tune. She liked it, and the next day we got the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Reels of Sound | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

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