Word: winthrops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although I have been unable to ascertain the astrological machinations governing such things, precisely 24 hours after the Winthrop concert begins, the Kuumba Singers of the Afro-American Cultural Center will perform in the Lowell House dining hall. (That's Saturday, March 12 at 8:30 pm for those of you without slide rules or pocket calculators.) Count on richly-textured choral and African folk music; $1 donation requested...
...Charles smells again. Wierdos fill the Square. Townies line Weeks bridge, asking forcefully for lunch money and beating each other bloody on Saturday nights. Best of all, the red-winged Guy Van Duser (guitar) and speckled Billy Novick (saxaphone, clarinet and penny whistle) will nest in the Winthrop JCR tomorrow night...
...Duser is easily the best guitarist in the Northeast," Dave Sidman, chairman of the Winthrop House Folk and Jazz Society, the concert sponsors, said yesterday. (Of course, I am told Sidman is given to statements like "Massachusetts is easily the best state in the Union," and "One is easily the loneliest number there could ever be.") But this time he could be right. Berkeleetrained Van Duser specializes in finger-picking--bluegrass, jazz, classical, and an incredible version of "Stars and Stripes Forever" in which he simultaneously plays bass, melody, and piccolo parts. Novick, who played with David Bromberg...
...Harvard could fall to Yale, but RPI could lose twice, thereby creating a tie and forcing the intervention of ECAC officials, who could then decide that they'd rather see liberal arts types and not engineers in the playoffs. Yeah, right, and last night's Winthrop House junior dinner was exciting...
...much as they once did, but their families are still very much in evidence. Saltonstall says that his first loyalty was to his family but his second was to Harvard. He represented the tenth generation of Saltonstalls to go to the College; the twelfth generation is now in Winthrop House. The Saltonstalls, Lodges and Peabodys are now among us. The elder Saltonstalls and Lodges probably hope their families will continue a tradition of public service. But meanwhile the rest of us must wonder whether the same preoccupation with national security and neglect of other national priorities will characterize their careers...