Word: wierd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday mornings with a junior high school friend and bop into Harvard. The Square was a lot cooler then, more wierd people to stare at, more radical literature to pick up etc.-- maybe it's just that everything's a lot cooler in the eighth grade. After making the rounds we'd head down Boylston St. to Carey Cage. By 11 a.m. there would be about 40 kids gathered around waiting for the guy to come out and dole out the concession jobs. (It was a lot like the dockside scene from On the Waterfront.) There was a real hierarchy...
...reunion with Joan Baez. Bob and Joan go back a long time. In the early days in the Village, he thought her voice too pretty, that the world was ugly and needed to be sung about in harsh tones. But she fell in love with him -- he aroused this wierd maternal feeling in her, the way he seems to with most women who he meets. She took him along on one of her big tours and endured him when he got drunk and self-indulgent (he was once booed offstage for performing a forty-five minute version...
...intents and purposes, Miles has been jazz itself for the last decade or so. Almost any one of the young jazz men who is doing good things today learned his stuff from Miles, and there's a lot to learn from Mr. D. Miles can get into some pretty wierd stuff every once in a while, but what's wrong with wierdness? He'll be in town until...
...living here, for whatever bureaucratically designated purpose, affords an unusual contact with a lot of wierd people (especially living at Radcliffe), and in that I find its major worth. In order to remain happy and to allow that contact, it has been helpful to balance the world of music and art with the world of Harvard-a world primarily antithetical to those things. And yet Harvard is not to be wholly damned because it does allow some room for them and, in spite of itself, some human inspiration...
WORCHESTER (UPI)-Craig Jones had seen some pretty wierd things in his lifetime. Craig particularly remembered the time he had worn a black sock and a blue sock to school in Miss Finch's Grade 4-B class. "Geez, was I embarrassed," Craig recalled...