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...Harvard has changed me. They say that the most important part of our education takes place outside of the classroom, and my unexpected fondness for the man who sings “Friends in Low Places” and “Thunder Rolls” is living, fiddling proof of that maxim. True, it hasn’t been easy to overcome my anti-Garth bigotry; indeed, the first time my freshman year roommate blasted “Rodeo” (It’s bulls and blood / it’s dust and mud / it?...
...first place.” The album’s 16 tracks, which Lord recorded herself at Park Street and Harvard Square, consist almost entirely of covers, including Big Star’s “Thirteen,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” and the Pogues’ “Sayonara.” The disc also features songs by Lord’s longtime friends Nick Saloman (of the Bevis Frond) and Grammy-winning mainstream breakout Shawn Colvin (of “Sunny Came Home” fame...
...displaying Walt’s favorite characteristics of curiosity, courage, constancy and confidence. I survived my first “camping” experience in the oddly unnatural nature of Fort Wilderness at 12 and overcame my fear of roller coasters by finally caving into peer pressure and braving Thunder Mountain Railroad. For four years my high school got away with sending my class on “educational” field trips to Epcot. During my senior year, our competitive cheerleading squad placed ninth in the nation at Disney’s Wide World of Sports complex. And after...
...Parkinson's; in Captiva, Fla. A graduate of Stanford, Fadiman moved to China in 1941 without a journalism job but determined to report on the war raging there. The wife of the late writer and critic Clifton Fadiman, she co-wrote with Theodore H. White the 1946 best seller Thunder Out of China...
...subsequent 1960 marriage to society photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones ended in divorce in 1978. Once a heavy smoker, she suffered at least two earlier strokes and had recently been confined to a wheelchair. DIED. ANNALEE WHITMORE JACOBY FADIMAN, 85, screenwriter, World War II correspondent and co-author of Thunder Out of China with Theodore H. White, by suicide; in Captiva, Florida. Fadiman reported on World War II for TIME and LIFE magazines after her husband Melville was killed in a freak plane accident in 1942. DIED. ONG TENG CHEONG, 66, who became the first elected President of Singapore...