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...series' final scene is its saddest and wisest. On Delacroix Island, at the mouth of the Mississippi, we meet Irvan and Allen Perez, two cousins who belong to the Islenos, a Spanish-speaking people who first settled in Louisiana 200 years ago. The Perezes are fishermen. As they work, they sing slow, bittersweet a cappella songs called decimas--10-stanza numbers, mostly in Spanish, that tell the stories of their lives and communities. They sing of shrimp boats and muskrat trappers, bad weather and home mortgages. Their voices are piercing and pure. Allen sings...
...SPEEDY RECOVERY NASCAR driver Ernie Irvan was given a 10% chance of surviving after a '94 crash at Michigan International Speedway. But 13 months later, he was back, driving in a race in North Carolina. Though Irvan had to wear an eyepatch to eliminate double vision, he finished sixth and said, "It felt as if I'd been doing it last week...
Three students then gave the traditional Commencement speeches. Irvan T. O'Connell, Jr. '52 presented the Latin Oration, John H. Mansfield '52 spoke on the "Importance of Medieval Philosophy" and Jack Edward Brown 3L gave an address entitled "The Challenge of Survival...
Services this week will be conducted by James M. Slocum '52, Irvan T. O'Connell '52, LeRoy Rouner '53, Anthony W. Morss '53, and Francis C. Huntington '53. Anybody may attend from any of the Houses or the Yard...
...believes in one theory can still present the other side. Moreover, a man who believes in something will have something to teach. I do not want professors who are disinterested. And anyhow, where does the CRIMSON propose to find a religious teacher who believes in religions in general? Irvan T. O'Cononell...