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Four members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, decked out in flamboyant drag, concluded the event with the 2002 Class Ode, a satirical song with references to the closing of the Crimson Sports Grille and the campaign on campus for a living wage...
...colleague Rahul Rohatgi recently wrote a column on Harvard’s superb athletic performance this year. I will try to add to his ode, focusing not only on the past but also on what’s to come...
Like Lucinda Williams but with softer edges, Rose fuses country, honky-tonk and smoldering pop into something all her own. She has one of those rough, been-through-a-lot kind of voices, but she's careful not to overplay it. On Wheels Going By, an ode to summer driving and radio listening, and the jokey lover's plea See How I Need You, she positively purrs. When the brooding comes on Good Man, Rose nails it, singing something close to the perfect song as she asks her lover to "jump that hedgerow/ I'll jump this bedroom window/ Together...
...these days? The good ol' days weren't really all that great--there was the cold war, Vietnam and disco, after all--but in the world of advertising, there's gold in the past. In March, Burger King celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Whopper hamburger with an advertising ode to the ages, featuring basketball behemoth Shaquille O'Neal. In the commercial, Shaq enters a Burger King in the '50s, strolls through the restaurant during the '60s, then the '70s, and leaves, meal in hand, in today's world. (In real life, we hope, it doesn't take 50 years...
According to a bbc poll Gilmour cites, Kipling's famous ode to self-improvement, If, remains Britain's favorite poem. His verse and stories about the British in India still largely determine how the Brits think of that era. His lifelong interest in the country's military transformed its reputation. His home in Sussex has become a national shrine. More subtly, Kipling - the least pretentious of men and ever supportive of the underdog - had a huge and permanent influence in closing the gap in Britain between "high" and "popular" culture...