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DIED. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH, 94, lyric writer and poet, enduring romantic and, like her husband Charles, a pioneering aviator; in Passumpsic, Vt. Lindbergh was seven months pregnant when she and her husband set a transcontinental speed record in 1930. Two years later, their son Charles Jr. was kidnapped and killed in one of the era's most chronicled news events. (See EULOGY, below...
...done: "George and I used the same microphone and we never overdubbed anything. What you hear went down on the track as it went down. George and I just harmonized, blended well together. We just kind of knew where the other one was going with the lyric and... we wouldn't make any mistakes. So we'd [finish] a lot of songs on the first take...
Alexander Calder, renowned for his kinetic sculpture, had his piece "Mobile" temporarily installed in the fifth floor atrium of the Healey Library. The lyric piece was loaned to UMass by the Fleet Financial Corporation before being sold a year later. The last series of installations is a group of 10 fantasy coffins from Ghana, on loan from the west Los Angeles gallery of Ernie Wolfe (Tucker's college roommate.) The coffins are an integral part of burial rites practiced by the Ga and other coastal Ghana communities...
Audience adoration figured prominently in the Dar Experience. The nearly sold-out house adoringly hung on her every word and lyric. They especially appreciated her older songs, cheering when Dar announced that she was about to perform an oldie. She acknowledges this, joking, "I don't take it personally anymore." Her solo performance of "The Babysitter's Here," a description of adoration from the perspective of a pre-teen taken from her first album, was one of the highlights of the show...
This is why it is so hard to make coherent sense of the place. Every time we "all come to look for America" (another Simon lyric) , we end up staring at ourselves. Old Whitman sang the confusion: "Males, females, immigrants, combinations, the copiousness, the individuality of the States each for itself...O lands! all so dear to me--what you are, (whatever it is), I become a part of that, whatever...