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While doing his "American Folkways" show at WHRB last year. Steven A. Maddox '85 said, he realized students interested in folk music had trouble getting together...
...Maddox, who says he has no official title because he does not think titles fit well with the "low-key" image of the group he is reviving, said the "only purpose [of the Lost City] is to help people to enjoy themselves and music...
...that end, the Lost City will hold two meetings each month, organize coffee houses where students can perform, and possibly activities like concerts by area artists and one-day workshops for members to learn from local folk musicians. Maddox said...
...wishes he had the gold medal. "Everything's changed. I could buy the restaurant now." Slowly he mentioned the names of some of those responsible for the success of the civil rights movement in their various contradictory ways: Martin Luther King Jr., George Wallace, Robert Kennedy, Lester Maddox . . . The voice was muffled and much thicker than one had prayed. He spoke as if he had a handkerchief in his mouth. I suggested that maybe throwing the Olympic medal off the bridge had helped in that cause too? He did not comment...
Fairbank added that the donation would be used "to do the most important things" for China studies, especially funding post-doctoral research. Patrick G. Maddox, associate director at the Center, emphasized the crucial nature of post-doctoral research on China and called the donation a chance for rising scholars in the field "to come back to a major Center and get a shot of intellectual adrenalin...