Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also managed to master the piano, landing a job playing piano for the Aviday label of Light Records in Detroit. In the summer after sophomore year he obtained an interview with the famous Light studio through a producer cousin. "They just left me by myself in this room for 20 minutes to come up with a song. I had never done that before." The people at the studio liked what they heard, enough to offer him a job. Since then he has done an independent study on jazz composition, and he says it has made him even better...
Naama Potok is somewhat less sure of herself. She auditioned for Yale's Drama School, London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Acting, and the ART Institute and was rejected. The year is open to her. This summer she will work at the Williamstown Theater Festival. Afterwards she heads for Israel and Europe. "This summer should tell me something. I have a feeling that when the juices get flowing that I will be more than willing to be acting." she says...
Jennifer A. Litt is packing for Chicago too. After a summer at the Bennington, Vermont writing program, she will move to Illinois to act, direct and write. With one prize-winning, published play already under her belt and a partially completed novel, Litt says she feels secure about her writing. "I'm much more scared about going into theater, but I will," she says...
McCrady is sure of himself as an actor, a confidence that comes from years of training. In high school, he left Sewanee for Minneapolis to spend a year at the Minneapolis Theater School. Every summer has been spent in summer stock. He has appeared in three Hasty Pudding theatricals, two Gilbert and Sullivan productions and numerous other productions including Play, where he and two other actors performed sitting in urns. Freshman year he was in five shows plus the Pudding. "And I was also trying to convince myself I was a mathematics major, which was tough." Fall semester junior year...
This land and these people who are my ghosts, who loved their home and traditions, who felt profoundly comfortable in the heat of a stultifying Southern summer, these tug at me and tell me I must return to the South bearing gifts from Harvard, that I must give up my great love of the intensity and impatience of the North in order to regain a place in the South...