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...four-hour lecture, full of piping lore and the illustrative invocation of legendary figures. "Now, Willie Clancy's playing had a lot of raw energy. He liked to bite every note with sharp teeth -- or maybe even with dull teeth, so it would cut even rougher. Liam O'Flynn, on the other hand, prefers to play a tune refined to the ultimate, with the least possible moral disturbance." In the course of the afternoon we learn the pipes were born sometime in the 18th century; the reason, say some, was that the British banned the playing of the war pipes...
...people have extensive record collections, and they don't want to start all over," says Liam B. Lavery '89, Lowell House rock 'n' roll lover...
Whenever Christopher Liam Moore '86 and Eric David Ronis '86 get together they start acting. Often they do it before capacity audiences in the Loeb mainstage or Experimental theaters, in the basement of Adams House, or in Ronis's own room, where they have staged unusual theatrical events for crowds as small as 15. But the highly touted acting-directing duo saves some of their most original work for daily conversation, where they have been known to talk, "in character," as one friend puts it, from sunrise to sunset...
...DIED. Liam O'FIaherty, 88, powerful and prolific Irish novelist and short-story writer, whose tales of desperate men, failed traditions and spiritual torment (The Black Soul, The House of Gold, Famine) combined brutally modern realism and wild lyricism; in Dublin. His best-known work, The Informer (1925), was filmed three times, most notably in 1935 by John Ford and starring Victor McLaglen...
...liam Poore, presented evidence showing that since 1978. Winkes has received a salary roughly $5,000 less than his female colleague, Catherine Zerner. Winkes testified that Zerner, who is now on sabbatical, is the only other associate professor in the art history division of the art department...