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...Harvard and the paths they chose to follow afterwards. Greenfield and Micheli were Visual and Environmental Studies concentrators, while Cutler worked in a special concentration and was active in the theatre scene. After graduating, Greenfield became a professional photographer, Micheli began making films, and Cutler bounced around between radio, film, and TV production. The three did not even meet until long after college.Yet the filmmakers do have one thing in common with respect to their education: all cite a Harvard faculty member as a major influence on their respective bodies of work. For Cutler, it was Professor of Film Studies...
...BERNARD L. PARHARM CRIMSON STAFF WRITER Once upon a time, Harvard radio was a hip-hop Mecca. This past semester, a handful of students tried to bring back the glory. During the mid-1980s and early 1990s, the WHRB hip-hop department—known as “The Dark Side”—hosted “Street Beat,” one of college radio’s seminal rap programs. The show also spawned a campus newsletter by the same name, which later became one of the premier journals of hip hop culture...
...fast. It’s not necessarily a lack of good material that prevents Harvard students from making it in the rap game. Indeed, two white boys from radio station WHRB understood hip-hop culture so well that they managed to create the longest-running and arguably most influential magazine about the genre and its artists. And in the past five years, two rap crews with Harvard undergraduates have rubbed elbows with the mainstream’s biggest stars, verging on national fame...
WHAT WERE THE AMBITIONS OF AN ABORIGINAL BOY GROWING UP IN NORTHERN NEW SOUTH WALES WITH 10 SIBLINGS? We were a poor family, but I always felt that the world was my oyster. I remember listening to the radio when Lionel Rose won the world (bantamweight) boxing title in 1968 and thinking, An Aboriginal person can do anything if he has a go. I didn't see myself as prime minister or a billionaire, but I knew I could do things...
...Kennedy's campaign meanwhile printed perhaps a million pamphlets recounting the candidate's support for the civil rights leader and his family, which they handed out in front of black churches all around the country. Two days before the vote, Dr. King himself went on the radio to praise Kennedy and denounce the Republicans for "disagreement and double-talk." It was not quite an endorsement-but it was enough...