Word: preston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Preston K. Munter, the director of Law School Health Services and a Dudley House associate, set the tone for the evening when he expressed Dudley House's "sense of loss and feelings of ambivalence...
Black and Blue's most important outside influence comes from Billy Preston, who also toured with the Stones last summer. "Melody," a Preston-inspired number--essentially a dialogue between himself and Jagger--has an old fashioned jazzy piano rhythm and stylized vocals which range from falsetto through scatting and even a throaty 'cocktail bar' whisper. The result is something completely unlike anything the Stones have done before, and the departure from standard fare works remarkably well. Jagger sings in an exaggerated style, demonstrating a suprising vocal complexity and range. Clearly he is experimenting with this new-found idiom and enjoying...
...your ball on a chain/And you sawed off shotgun/ Blood all on your brains, yeah," and "You can scandalize me/Scar all over my name/ You can steal my money/ But that don't mean a doggone thing." But only the chorus lyrics are enunciated clearly as Keith Richard, Billy Preston and the new Stone Ron Wood (though he only plays on two cuts) form a tight backup group to sing out the threat: "Cause if you really think you can push it/ I'm gonna bust your knees with a bullet." Some of the lyrics may be swallowed...
Captain Mel Embree played the part of Sergeant Preston, taming the Huskies with a first in the high jump (6 ft. 10 in.), a third in the long jump (22 ft.), and a surprise runner-up spot in the 120-yard hurdles (15.4 sec.). Sophomore Paul Organ's first place in that event was his first varsity win ever...
Traditionally, a man of the cloth, of the bar and of the classroom has been chosen to judge the Boylston finals. In April, David Steiner '54, general counsel for the University, Preston N. Williams, Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change at the Divinity School and Mary Anne Schwalbe, director of admissions, will sit on the judgment panel...