Word: nats
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Nat Hentoff, prolific author on jazz and the First Amendment (39 published books) and Village Voice syndicated columnist is working on millions of things, like always. None of his current work is about Boston, but one of his favorite books, a memoir called Boston Boy about growing up in Roxbury, was recently re-released. Hentoff agreed to a gambol down faded 60-year-old Memory Lane to talk about his book and his Boston upbringing, though that’s not really what he ended up talking about...
...Nat Hentoff: I just really don’t see why Harvard’s interested in this story. Now, maybe you can tell me, what are people doing around there about what John Ashcroft and George Bush are doing to the Constitution...
...elaborates on the chorus; the entire song rises and falls with the mood (first mopey, then insistently desperate) of a lovelorn swain. It was a #1 hit for Paul Whiteman and had five other top-12 renditions in 1924. Twenty-four years later the song went to #22 for Nat Cole and #23 for Frank Sinatra. It was also a minor charter for Johnny Tillotson in 1962 - 38 years later...
Gagnon’s laughter, described by his roommate Nat Myers ’04 as “manic,” was perhaps due to the coincidental fact that Gagnon is currently directing “Dracula” at the Loeb. Bats turning up in his room, bats turning into people and sucking blood...the comedy is all there. “My roommates thought I was cracking up [because of the laughter] and that the stress of the show was getting to me,” he says...
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, Jersey Diners (Rutgers Univ. Press), Nat'l Assoc. of Insurance Commissioners, Passaic County Historical Society