Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their Halloween Jamboree this Saturday. The program includes several songs from the '40s, performed in the Pitches' inimitable style. Joining them for this concert will be the Harvard Krokodiloes, and Yale's Society of Orpheus and Bacchus. The Kroks need no introduction; as for the Elis, we hear they sound pretty good, though they still go to you-know-where. The Jamboree is in Sanders Theater; tickets at Holyoke Center or at the door...
...that's not half of it! First of all, I'm going to plug a group, sight unseen and sound unheard, mainly because the lead singer went to the trouble of coming all the way to Leverett House to give me free tickets to their show (which, by the way, is at the Paradise on Oct. 26). They're called Private Lightening. I don't get it, but go see them anyway. Also coming to the Paradise are the David Johansen Group on Oct. 27, Blondie on Nov. 3-4, and Dr. John on Nov. 6. It looks like Nick...
...pendulum back to the way curricula were before '60's campus activists forced many university administrations to abolish or loosen course requirements. Now that campuses are quiet again, faculties are starting to regret their loss of control over students' educations. Many of the reasons cited for curricular reforms sound like the same ones the fathers of general education offered in the early 1900s at places like Columbia, the University of Chicago, and Harvard. The speeches are so much alike they prompted critic Alston Chase to write in September's Atlantic Monthly that with the Core, Harvard is only "reinventing...
...usually Harvard's. But sometimes they tend to feel bitter about what they see as Harvard's undeserved limelight. Nevertheless, phone calls continue to pour into University Hall requesting information on the Core. Schools as unlike Harvard as the University of Tampa and the University of Puget Sound are considering core curriculums. As Riesman notes, "The affluent started out wearing blue jeans, and now it has caught up with the blue collar." Ah, the vicissitudes of fashion...
...fact the entire album stands up to repeated listening much better than most popular music, probably because six or seven different people wrote the songs. Harry tries out a variety of vocal styles; they're not all successful, but they are exciting, and you never know how she'll sound next...