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...Western boardies regard surfing as a largely solitary, internal experience. "But Tongans are a very social people who like to do things in groups," says Burling. Between sets one morning the girls are whooping it up. Tongan Idol is back on television and they're in the mood to sing. First it's Ain't No Mountain High Enough, and then the Tongan national anthem gets a whirl. If they could stop laughing for longer than a few seconds, they'd sound pretty good...
...Bunts Berry during the bus trip, maybe another old-timer like Dick Durrell, the guy who organized the championship trophy?s upcoming visit to Fairfield, has taken up the task. I don?t know. The nouveau BLOHARDS seem more taken with ?Tessie,? a lyric the Royal Rooters used to sing to rouse the crowd back at the turn of the last century. Sox management unearthed the tune, and the story behind it, a year or two ago, and Dr. Charles-that?s Charles Steinberg, the magician of community relations for the Henry/Lucchino gang, the wizard behind the wonderful ring-presentation...
...Where Shall I Wander By John Ashbery Some poets thunder and some poets sing. Ashbery just talks, sifting through the verbal detritus of civilization and making fascinating sculptures out of what he finds. His poems register pain, but at a distance, transformed into a funny wistfulness, as if it all happened a couple of years and a couple of good martinis ago: "It's really quite a thrill/ when the moon rises above the hill/ and you've gotten over someone/ salty and mercurial, the only person you ever loved...
...never been able to sing very well. My pitch is, you know, off. But I've always enjoyed hearing composers sing their stuff. Some songwriters like Harold Arlen have great voices. But others--they may not be quite as off-pitch as I, but the important thing is the enthusiasm. And what I like about listening to the stuff was the enthusiasm of the young writer. It's genuine energy and joy in both the voice and the piano...
Morgan R. Grice ’06, a government concentrator in Winthrop House, is editorial chair of The Crimson. She is writing a song to the tune of “just the two of us” to sing with her mini-me, and will perform in the Editorial Office this fall...