Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three Harvard students in the Crimson opening-night band, and the Tulla's groups were almost completely from Harvard. These nights at the Coffee Grinder were open sessions where anyone who wanted could play. They used to split half the take, and each man made maybe a dollar a night. "The Crimson offer meant a lot more bread, so we decided to grab...
Wilson is not alone in a feeling that Harvard should and will take the lead in any new movement having a certain intellectual character. "The West Coast experiments give modern jazz an intellectual aura, and this should rivet the Ivy Leaguer to the idea of jazz as an art form. What we need first is a different attitude in the Music Department. Then we need a club with a definite idea--a fixed purpose--and some means to endure when the original members leave. Once this attracts the Harvard market things will really move fast...
Dudley has always been "a very useful device to take care of temporary groups of students who are wanted in Harvard, but for whom the College has no room," Leighton commented. The residential Houses, he observed, are inflexible units in providing space for students, while Dudley represents "an element of flexibility" in the housing system...
...illicitly, caress each other with streetlamps and shadows and juke box symphonies, the soft sob of loss, the subway shudder and the sigh. Night warms is black limbs by the gutter fires and furnace spit. We should bottle the night, prone and passive, siphon it into leather canteen flasks, take swigs of it while sunning ourselves by the river, savour it after a French loave-lunch, rub it on our arm in lieu of excrement...
Smuggler. At Little St. Bernard Pass on the French-Italian frontier, a French priest was refused permission to take 50 bananas into Italy (where the importation of fruit is controlled by a state monopoly), sat in his car and ate 47 of them before giving up, handing the rest to gaping onlookers...