Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three students have received awards in the 1978 Dana Reed Prize competition for excellence in undergraduate writing at Harvard...
...Dana Reed Prize was established in memory of Dana Reed '43, who was reported missing after a 1944 bombing raid over the Adriatic Seas. A native of Cambridge who attended Belmont public schools, he had been executive editor of The Harvard Crimson, editor-in-chief of the 1943 Class Album, and undergraduate editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...second side of the album is not nearly as powerful or masterful as the first. "Shooting Star" is Reed's semi-sardonic mimic of David Bowie; "I Wanna Be Black" is at times painful--"I Wanna Be Black and get shot in the face like Martin Luther King"--but illuminating in its surprise, raw and blunt, like the life it sings...
...Real Good Time Together" Reed plays with his voice through a phase shifter, and the rest of the side experiments with different devices and techniques. "Wait" is a kind of happy-go-lucky tune that ends the album, tying saxophone and the other mad, rambling instruments together into a carnival of sound...
...Reed wrote all the songs for Street Hassle, and he plays guitar, bass, piano and vocals on the album. Reed and Richard Robinson produce the album with impressive finesse and vision, mixing the cool female vocals behind Reed's harsh sounds at all the right times. They even connect the second and third movements of "Street Hassle" with a baroque soprano solo...