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...Maid” is unique on the album in its simplicity. The track features only Marling’s vocals and guitar, and because of its spare quality, her gorgeous voice and poignant storytelling are able to stand out. The song testifies to Marling’s ability to tell tales well beyond the scope of the average 20-year-old, convincingly recounting the experience of a woman who “found a babe atop a log and all alone / Took him under, took him on.” “Made By Maid” provides...
...appear throughout his poems. This ability to create a convincing narrative seems to be, according to Hass, important for poets. After all, in “August Notebooks: A Death,” he claims that “the most reliable stories... are the ones the poets tell...
Besides disturbing images, noise also escapes dorm rooms. Walk down past the River Houses on a weekend night and you can tell where the parties are. Just listen. When big parties get all hot and muggy and people start throwing open every window they can find to get some air in there, they seem to forget that things can go out the window too—like sound. I went to a party in Leverett House last week, and without knowing the exact room number, I knew where I was headed because Lady Gaga and Sean Kingston had announced...
...institutions. They want to support them—they almost want an excuse to support them,” said Gifford Combs ’80, who has in the past solicited donations for the Harvard University Library. “You just have to have a story to tell them, and they’ll sign...
...single prospect is running fast ahead of the pack, there is less of a price to pay for a late entry. As the deadline approaches, as happens every cycle, we are likely to see a number of surprising candidates leap in with cases to make and stories to tell. Given the number of potential contenders, it will be interesting to see who gets in and who stays...