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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...object: Rod Serling and his cigar made a career out of it. The only way to transcend cliche is to go for it: modesty is no virtue in conceptual art. Duncan's mediocre ambition appears in every picture, while the overreaching bravado of hauling two red couches in a van for four years is captured in nearly every shot. Inevitably, the quality comes from the men and not the metaphor

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Color Red | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

...began one of WHRB's oldest traditions, the musical "orgy," Van Ummerson is still remembered as one of the station's great innovators, and the marathon orgies he inspired have become a Reading Period standard at the station, focusing on more than just classical music and ranging from live folk music to reggae...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: On the Air And Under The Ground | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...week after his historical broadcast, Van Ummerson was drafted, and left Cambridge without knowing about the tradition he started. "The first I heard about [the orgies] was in an issue of the alumni bulletin in about 1960," he says...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: On the Air And Under The Ground | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...time of Van Ummersen's original orgy, the station was only three years old and could be received only inside Harvard buildings. But it had already come a long...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: On the Air And Under The Ground | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

Musical programs concentrated on classical music, but also included a great deal of jazz. In 1944, about a year after the first orgy, Richard L. Kaye '46 broadcast the second classical music orgy, which he called The Harold Ferdinand Van Ummerson Memorial Program...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: On the Air And Under The Ground | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

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