Word: singed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...located the trouble: an aneurysm of the splenetic artery. In chilling but mesmerizing detail, he explains how he slowed, then stopped, the bleeding and excised the damaged artery. Afterward, this veteran of hundreds of operations found himself in a state of near euphoria: "Something within me wanted to sing and shout, to dance carefree and make love, to acclaim my triumph to the heavens and the ages--a woman's life had been saved, and I would always remember the wonder of this night...
John Lee Hooker doesn't just sing the blues, and he doesn't just play the blues on his guitar. He is the blues. Along with a handful of American musicians, such as Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Bessie Smith and a few others, Hooker helped establish in the cultural imagination what being a blues performer is all about. When Hooker sings, it's with an ocean-deep voice that grumbles and growls and sometimes soothes; his guitar playing has a wise, twangy authority...
...that appears near the beginning and again near the end of the story; a four-ton cheese called "The Octuple Gloucester"; a journey by Mason to the inhabited center of the earth; cameo appearances by a number of 18th century notables, including Benjamin Franklin, George and Martha Washington (who sing a duet) and Dr. Samuel Johnson, accompanied by his biographer-to-be James Boswell...
Daniel A. Simon '99 will sing the solo of the song and also take part in a brief interview about Arts First...
...very many suggestions that have been put forth, the one that is simple, uncomplicated, and practical is from graduating women and their families and guests to substitute "daughters in" for "sons to thy," while graduating men and their families and guests sing the song as originally written...