Word: vans
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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
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...