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...teeth...can find an attentive audience. Its nurturing quality has proved itself decade after decade." And Club Passim does have an "alumni" list for the past few decades twice as impressive as Harvard's: Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, Shawn Colvin, Jackson Browne, Tracy Chapman, Tow Waits, Suzanne Vega, Nanci Griffith and Tom Rush all started out across the street from the Coop. So much for geography as destiny...
...University City is asleep. But on the Rataj month-at-a-glance calendar, a crisp notation--"B&E: Papal Mass"--dictates an early start. Betty, 50, comes back down the hall with a black suit on and a pin-striped, bleary-eyed corporate lawyer, her husband Ed, in tow. She glows. "I woke up smiling," says the mother of five. "I think this is the greatest thing that could happen to an adult Catholic." Even one who, like most American believers, is still sorting out her feelings about the head of her church, 20 years into his tenure...
That doesn't mean they don't have their discontents. Their work, the constant unstitching and restitching of 200-ft. barges into the tow, can be tedious when not frenzied. Their month-long absences are like those of truckers, except that calls home over ship-to-shore phones are prohibitively expensive. Recounts Grainger pilot Kip Brown: "Three days after my daughter was born, I caught a boat in St. Louis for 60 days. My wife didn't stand for too much of that. The second marriage, two sons, pretty much the same. I got one now I just married...
...favor of hearing the crew's news and distributing the prayer schedule of the institute's tiny Paducah, Ky., chapel: the boatmen can join in as their work shifts and the river permit. When one deckhand stabbed another in Paducah in November, and a pilot fell off a tow in Greenville last month, Wilkinson visited the survivors "to let people know someone is concerned when things happen on the river...
...anyway, as I was saying... We leave this place, bags in tow, Heidegger in our hip-pockets, and who sweeps in to fill our vacuum but all these old people? This year, they did so to an old-style British "Panto," a comical take on the fairy tale "Cinderella"; a traditional "St. George and the Dragon" mummers play; lots of familiar carols and rounds, including the ceremonial "Boar's Head Carol" from Oxford; Susan Cooper's classic solstice poem "The Shortest Day" and a spectacular rendition of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" you'll never forget. And, as always, Revels...