Word: karens
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...Cambridge Kids’ Council—which studies youth issues in order to make policy recommendations—announced last night that it would examine the link between students’ home and school environments and their mental health at a meeting of city officials and community members. Karen A. Hacker, executive director of the Institute for Community Health and a professor at Harvard Medical School, presented findings from the most recent mental health surveys conducted at the city’s middle and high schools. The results, which were broken down by race and language spoken at home...
...Enid, Okla., Dalton was married and divorced twice before the age of 21. It was not long until she made her way to Greenwich Village at a time when residence all but required one to be a bard or a banjo player. She was beautiful, too. “Karen was tall, willowy, had straight black hair, was long-waisted and slender, what we all wanted to look like,” Lacy J. Dalton, a self-described “hard-luck” chanteuse and former fellow West Villager, has said. She could certainly sing and strum...
Despite her debilitating addiction to hard drugs and her premature AIDS-related death, the real tragedy of Karen Dalton’s life may have been that she was seen as an interpreter when she was more really a divine medium between those she sang for and the unsounded depths of a tune. She did not merely elucidate the fuller substance of a song or discover the unplumbed; she inhabited the songs she commandeered and established distinctly new profundities by weaving both deeply personal and universal narratives into her work...
...recently when listening to “Something On Your Mind,” a song she sings with both a fragility akin to Billie Holliday in her most heroin-addled years and a strength that rivals Lady Day at her best. I realized that knowing the specifics of Karen Dalton’s life are not as essential as they might be for another artist, and filling in the gaps in my image of her was a potential waste of time, for her music is just that masterful—it contextualizes itself. It was then that I realized...
...Karen Dalton may be called a folk musician, but really, I think she just hung out with a fair number of people who thought of themselves as folk singers...