Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...events have been curiously ignored by Harvard students. If you've been waiting for the right opportunity to investigate these affairs, you should not ignore the Otis Rush concert in the Leverett House dining room at 8:30 pm this Sunday. Best known for his song "I Can't Quit You, Baby", Rush is a young, intelligent, left-handed guitarist from Chicago who rarely leaves his home town. He is credited with having helped Buddy Guy and Magic Sam begin their recording careers. Rush can handle a wide variety of guitar styles and he sings falsetto, breaking voice. If this...
...child of the streets, raised in Manhattan's Harlem, Winchell quit school when he was 13 to tour the vaudeville circuit with Gus Edwards' revue. Several years later, as a touring hoofer, he began composing a chatty backstage newsletter featuring items about whose mother was recovering from the grippe and such quips as "You tell 'em, Ouija, I'm bored...
...happening before my eyes. The chorus of Bye Bye Birdie fascinated me. It had kids in it, and a camaraderie that I recognized. It seemed like an answer to the kind of loneliness I felt. Just friends kidding around, with lots of laughter." Two years later she quit school and began trying to join in the laughter...
...with another victory, its fifth in a row over Yale, and strengthen its hold on third place in the ECAC standings. Equally important to the Crimson, however, is the match between Princeton and Cornell at Baker Rink. If the Tigers can pull an upset (unlikely, since captain Art Schmon quit the squad Monday and defenseman Brian MacIntosh is benched for fighting last Wednesday), Harvard is assured of a tie for the Ivy title, provided it wins its last two games...
...among those naive and misguided souls hurtling headlong into the depraved trap of intellectual achievement. He should in such a case be applauded, since be sacrificed his own purity (certainly his virtue would have been less compromised had he transferred to an unaccredited junior college, or more righteously still, quit altogether and thumbed his nose at academe) that others might be saved...