Word: writings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DARYL HALL and John Oates are a curious combination. They possess a wealth of musical talents, both having shown over the course of their careers that they can write exceptional music. Neither one displays exceptional virtuousity with instruments--Hall plays an adequate keyboard and Oates strums a less-than-spectacular guitar. However, vocally the two complement each other nicely. Hall's wide-ranging, piercing voice contrasts well with Oates' smooth, sensual tenor...
When two students last year tried to initiate a convention to write a constitution for a new student government, House committees eagerly sent delegates. One month later, after a lot of work, the Student Assembly emerged like a phoenix from the ashes...
Kathryn Rice '79, president of BSA, urged members to attend an open organizational meeting this afternoon in Quincy House. Organizers hope to develop a strategy for Saturday's demonstration and to write out their reasons for protesting, Aron A. Estis '80, a members of BSA said yesterday...
...know," Isaac Bashevis Singer I used to muse, "when I sit down to write I have a feeling that I'm talking maybe to millions or maybe to nobody." Last week he could be assured of at least 18 avid readers-the members of the Swedish Academy, which awarded the 74-year-old writer the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature for his "impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life...
From Bellow he went on to employ dozens of translators-including Joseph, I.J. Singer's son. Though Isaac Bashevis Singer has long since gained fluency in English, he continues to write in his mother tongue. "It strikes one as a kind of inspired madness," Irving Howe once wrote. Counters Singer: "Yiddish contains vitamins that other languages don't have." Choice of vitamins is not his only idiosyncrasy. A vegetarian who refuses to swat flies, a firm believer in the supernatural, Singer has mysteriously grown more prolific with age: since his 50th birthday he has written eight novels...