Word: musician
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...Trove The Crimson’s archives, and you’ll find an interview with a graduating musician who, four years before, had nearly made up her mind to attend Yale...
Gartside is the rare white pop musician who can use rap without exploiting it. When Ben Folds gets the Ivy Leaguers bumpin’ with “Bitches ain’t shit but hoes and tricks,” it’s funny only because a smiling guy with rectangular glasses is singing it. When Gartside croons “Gonna rock you honey / ready or not / gonna steal your money,” it’s actually funny...
...been done for the sake of getting lost. I’ve walked along the Seine at night with a few friends and a few bottles of wine. During La Fête de la Musique, which is a citywide all-night music festival where both professional and amateur musicians and DJs play all night (in addition to many drunk Parisians who think they are musicians by 2 or 3 a.m.), I walked and danced till dawn along the cobblestones. I might have even thought that I was a musician by 2 or 3 a.m. Nobody sits to watch the World...
...later moved to the New England Conservatory, where he became the Conservatory’s first non-musician president in 2000. He was planning on stepping down at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year due to chronic lung disease...
...different realm. He knows that his role as King is to be a symbol, not a personality, precisely because (unlike a politician) he does not have to hustle and promote himself to win the people's favor. King Bhumibol happens to be hugely admired across Thailand, acclaimed as a musician, painter, patent-holding inventor and, most of all, philanthropist, who constantly goes around his kingdom offering development projects to help his people. But what he really seems to have mastered is the art of remaining highly visible, yet at some level out of sight. His thoughts and longings...