Word: johnson
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John Lee Hooker doesn't just sing the blues, and he doesn't just play the blues on his guitar. He is the blues. Along with a handful of American musicians, such as Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Bessie Smith and a few others, Hooker helped establish in the cultural imagination what being a blues performer is all about. When Hooker sings, it's with an ocean-deep voice that grumbles and growls and sometimes soothes; his guitar playing has a wise, twangy authority...
These newly-instigated policies stem from the numerous complaints made by black students alleging racial insensitivity on the part of Harvard police officers during the 12 year tenure of Riley's predecessor, Paul E. Johnson...
Bundy became active in public life after he left Harvard in 1961, serving as National Security Advisor to President John F. Kennedy '40 and President Lyndon B. Johnson, 14-year President of the Ford Foundation and professor of history at New York University...
MUSIC . . . DON'T LOOK BACK: "John Lee Hooker doesn?t just sing the blues, and he doesn?t just play the blues on his guitar," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "He is the blues." Along with a handful of American musicians, such as Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Bessie Smith and a few others, Hooker helped establish in the cultural imagination what being a blues performer is all about. Hooker is fond of using collaborators to enliven his music, and on his new album he?s chosen his partners deftly. The band Los Lobos backs Hooker on a virile version...
...Lider-Johnson also believes that "there are a lot of closet poets here," students who do write poetry but keep it a private matter. Though Etienne Benson '99, poetry editor of the Advocate, is more pessimistic about the actual number of student poets on campus, the numbers he provided suggests that there are some out there. While an average issue of the Advocate receives submissions from no more than "15 or 20" people, this spring's contest issue, closed to Advocate members, received submissions from "about 50 people...with an average of two or three poems per person." That...