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According to Ari Q. Fitzgerald '84, head of the Black student recruitment program, this record can be attributed to aggressive nation-wide minority recruitment by Harvard students and the Admissions Office...
...anything, lethal injections, firing squads, and electrocutions will soon prove too boring for American audiences. After the novelty wears off, Nielsen ratings will begin to drop, and the state's "producers" will have to come up with a more captivating formula. The process might degenerate into a variant of "Wide World of Sports"--gladitorial contests, or maybe criminals fighting off wild animals, running hundred-yard dashes through machine-gun fire, attempting broad jumps across impossibly wide flaming pits--a veritable Olympics! Can one popularize state executions...
...appear in installments over the next three years. People are losing interest in Shakespeare because the language has become too remote, Rowse contends, and all he has done is remove the "negative superfluous difficulties." Says he: "I want to keep William Shakespeare alive for the future of the whole wide world. My whole idea is to help the reader without getting him bogged down or buried under a mountain of footnotes...
Question: What competitive event would pit a running back (Earl Campbell), a race-car driver (A.J. Foyt) and an astronaut (Air Force Colonel Joe Engle) against a high-strung team armed only with cellos, violins, one harp and a collection of horns? No, not ABC's Wide Whirl of Junk Sports. Real answer: the 1984 Houston Symphony Olympics, a cacophonous assembly of nine celebrity guest conductors who showed up last week for a publicity-stunt contest that generated more than 1,500 new subscribers for the symphony season. All conducted themselves admirably-and the suffering orchestra less well...
...first of the great Basie bands was formed in 1935 in Kansas City, a wide-open town where the beat went on 24 hours a day. Basie, who had been stranded there seven years earlier after the breakup of a vaudeville show he had been traveling with, put together a nine-piece combo. Discovered by Jazz Critic and Record Producer John Hammond shortly thereafter, the Basie band went to New York in 1936. The next year the release of the bouncy One O'clock Jump made the Count a celebrity...