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Many Harvard groups concentrate on getting gigsoff campus, at clubs and bars. The Square'sofferings consist of The Black Rose and the Top ofthe Hong Kong; further out there are The MiddleEast, T. T. the Bear's, The Paradise and TheCauseway. One band, Circus of George (formerlyknown as Rank and File Pilot) has appearedoccasionally at Wellesley...
...sense rather than hear the rumble of a jet plane overhead. Her determination and natural talent, however, were enough to qualify her for London's Royal Academy of Music, where she graduated with honors. Glennie then compounded her professional challenge by setting out as a soloist instead of a rank-and-file orchestral player. Plenty of people make a living playing the piano, violin, flute or cello. But how many live off their skill with the snare drum, the marimba, the xylophone? Beethoven, after all, never wrote a percussion concerto...
Although Princeton was upset on Saturday by Brown, the Tigers defeated Yale yesterday afternoon and still rank an imposing second to the Quakers in league play...
Under heavy pressure from mainstream black politicians, Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, stripped aide Khalid Abdul Muhammad of his title and rank for making a speech last November that many critics labeled racist and anti-Semitic and that Farrakhan labeled "vile in manner, repugnant, malicious, mean-spirited." But Farrakhan also said he stood by "the truths" in the speech...
...Correct invaders, his stories would at least have the intellectual weight of satire. Humor need not and probably should not concern itself with furthering any social agendas. But for The Book of Guys to champion humor, these stories would have to be funny. Keillor's humor consists chiefly of rank anachronism and clumsy juxtaposition: A Wild West cowboy buys a condo from a realtor; Dionysus hits 50, gets de-deified, and sees a therapist about his midlife crisis; Don Giovanni dispenses romantic advice from the Sportsman Bar, where he plays piano. Maybe these stories would be funnier if Keillor were...