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Dunster residents Moon Duchin '97 and Roland Tan '97 said they felt the graffiti demonstrated that Dunster has become less tolerant in the past year. According to Duchin, Dunster is home to significantly more BGLTSA members than any House, and she worries that randomization has changed Dunster's previously accepting atmosphere...
...nearly two years, Oppenheimer (along with Moon Duchin '97) was The Crimson's posterchild of gay activism. Oppenheimer's shaved head and black combat gear--and his affinity for biting quotations--made him conspicuous on this carefully-groomed, moderate campus...
...this has come at a heavy price. Fogerty's wondrous new album, Blue Moon Swamp (Warner Bros.), follows a decade of anger, frustration, fear and hard-won resolution. But you don't hear the turmoil that went into the making of these songs. Instead you feel the confidence and ebullience of an artist renewed, covering the ground at the height of his power, even if the album's 12 tunes work out, on average, to one every 10 months or so. Ask him why the album took so long, and Fogerty, 52 this week, has an explanation as honest...
...ordeal left its mark in personal frustrations and creative stagnation. Fogerty's first marriage broke up in 1987. He heard music in his head but couldn't reproduce it to his own satisfaction. As he worked on Blue Moon Swamp's eerie A Hundred and Ten in the Shade, he thought the tune needed the insinuating underpinning of a bottleneck guitar. Instead of hiring a player, Fogerty commenced to teach himself the technique and, after a year, "I got fairly proficient. [Then] it became obvious that it was the wrong sound. It didn't match what was in my head...
Trying to dredge Blue Moon Swamp out of himself, Fogerty took several trips--"pilgrimages," he calls them--to the Mississippi Delta. "I was chasing ghosts," he says. Perhaps it was those ghosts of Robert Johnson and all the other bluesmen who drove off his demons, and produced a miracle that all of us can share...