Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blew all your pocket change on cocoa butter, jai-lai, and trans-Florida pizza runs, you'll have to settle for Cheap Trills, a violin, guitar, mandolin and bass quartet, hits the Winthrop JCR Saturday at 8:30 p.m. For $1.50 you can find out if Winthrop hits back...
Originally a bluegrass band, Trills "got too good at it," Dave Sidman, chairman of the sponsoring Winthrop House Folk and Jazz Society, said yesterday, so they started playing be-bop, jazz, 40s music, old time country and Irish fiddle tunes. (Trills has no vocalist). Prepare for "incredible solos at supersonic speed," Sidman says "they're probably the fastest musicians around...
...Harvard's victorious day on the football field last year in New Haven, can attest to the vibrancy and sincerity which they derive from the foreign tongue and tunes in their musical offerings. Anyway, if you find the all-Russian diet too filling, you can piirouetteska down to Winthrop to fluff out on "L'Appllon de Ballac" or up to the Yen Ching Library to decipher I Ching...
...playwright Jean Giradoux had a knack for treating heavy philosophical subjects in a light way. In L'Apollo de Bellac, being performed in French at Winthrop House this weekend, it's the classical theme of beauty that's the target. As the play opens, the Greek god Apollo comes to earth with the mission of teaching a woman the secret to any man's heart: Tell him he's handsome, Apollo says; no matter how ugly, any man will believe that. It takes little social consciousness to predict that this open sesamegets the woman into more trouble than she asked...
Poll data suggest that the Houses fall into two rough categories. The first five Houses--Leverett, Kirkland, Dunster, Quincy and Winthrop, in descending order--will be the first-choice House of nearly three-quarters of the freshmen, unless they altered their housing forms following publication of the survey results...