Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rolling Stones has been enshrined where some of their less charitable listeners have always felt it belonged: on a lavatory wall. The cover of the Stones' latest-and as yet unreleased-album is a photo of a graffiti-covered wall above an unpleasant-looking toilet. The name "The Rolling Stones" appears plainly, as do the title of the album, Beggars' Banquet, and the names of the tunes it contains. Scrawled in smaller letters are sly references by the Stones to themselves and their friends, as well as such phrases as "God rolls his own" and "Lyndon loves...
...little white house in nearby Arlington. He was hammering out the same dissonant chord over and over in an all too obvious and painful search for yet another answer. Outside, Composer Cowell paused, listened, finally burst into Ruggles' room. "Carl," he cried out, "what in God's name are you trying to do with that chord?" Replied Ruggles: "I'm giving it the test of time." It must have passed the test...
Monday night he asked the City Council to change the name of Harvard Square to Christopher Columbus Square. "What the hell," he says, grinning broadly, "that guy Harvard never did anything for Cambridge except give the city six lousy books on Protestant theology--and THAT place. We can certainly do better by the discoverer of our great nation." Columbus, Vellucci, and East Cambridge are all Italian...
...these that have shaped his reputation in the University community as two parts buffoon and one part bastard. Self-possessed Charles P. Whitlock, Assistant to the President for Civic Relations, smiles and shakes his head at the mention of Vellucci's name, while CRIMSON editors jump at the chance to make him appear a beast that never was on land or sea before. It was page one news last spring when Vellucci sat stony-faced through a young girl's tear-laden hour-long plea that her dog would be strangled if a proposed leash law was passed...
...wheels and deals quietly and privately in order to get something for the neighborhood. When he wanted to construct a playground where the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority said that it couldn't be built, he went to the President of the Standard Towel and Tissue Company and offered to name the back yard of his own company after the President if he would allow the children to use it as a play area. He created a little more building space in the area by convincing two companies to re-locate...