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...eventual decampment of “Brother West,” as he styles himself, for Princeton was the fruit of Summers’ presidential advice that West lay off the spoken-word albums and Al Sharpton presidential bids, and return to the scholarly toils of his handsomely paid vocation. A not altogether unreasonable demand, it had seemed to me as a twelfth grader, when I first heard of it—though not to West, who fumed that Summers was the “Ariel Sharon of higher education...
...Advocate are no longer the only place on campus where students participate in poetry. The spoken-word movement, a combination of performance art, poetry reading, and poetry jam, is rapidly gaining prominence at Harvard, and part of its purpose it to introduce the art of poetry to a wider audience—especially to non-specialists.“What I like about spoken word is that there is no comp,” says Eleanor M. Boudreau ’07, a spoken-word performer. “Anyone can show up to the meetings and we let anybody...
Even though Beyonc includes Encore for the Fans--really just a spoken-word intro to Listen, a song from her upcoming motion picture Dreamgirls (Don't ya just love cross-promotion?)--B'day holds up because the bulk of the songs aren't about her or you or anything at all. Get Me Bodied has no hummable melody, a title I don't understand and a chorus that repeats "Can you get me bodied/ I wanna be myself tonight." But set to a double-Dutch rhythm by producer Swizz Beatz, with lots of hand claps and whistles and maybe...
...Pimp’s Tango” commands the attention of both the wretched whorehouse and the captivated audience. His “Call from the Grave” is bone-chilling, even in a story that is for the most part black comedy, and his spoken-word acting is powerful and eloquent.The most thematically challenging parts of the story (the fake happy ending, the “Useless Song”) are perfectly executed, but the intentional attempt by the performers and the stage director to alienate the audience and complicate the script often obscure the basic storyline. Very...
...When it came to women and tenure and black academics, Summers was often criticized on the same grounds.Summers was blamed for the departure of star Professor Cornel R. West ’74 after he criticized the academic’s foray into spoken-word stardom. Similarly, Bok took his faculty to task for pursuing lucrative asides at the expense of more academic endeavors.Bok was also the president who first purchased land in Allston—a project that Summers was intimately involved in.Perhaps the most unlikely similarity lies in the two leaders’ reaction to controversy...