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...years, four of them as a graduate student at Harvard, but now I earn a living in part by substitute teaching in the Cambridge high schools. While "teaching" at Rindge Teach, I have never been able to teach, esp. the 9th graders, I only collect paper-airplanes and yo-yos, while ducking as best I can the chalk, pennies, spitballs and verbal abuse ("spick," "queer", etc.); I consider myself lucky because I have never been assaulted, only threatened...
...music, record and publishing worlds are paying tribute to that originality, and to the man behind it. Among the new LPs, the most irresistible is a Nonesuch release on which William Bolcom plays Gershwin's piano pieces, including the composer's variations on songs like Clap Yo'Hands, S'Wonderful and, of course, Swanee. An exhibition at Manhattan's Hallmark Gallery shows Gershwin to have been versatile enough to double as a gifted amateur painter and caricaturist, if somewhat prone to self-portraits. Also in Manhattan, a party at "21" features him as a performer...
...Wolfman!" the voice rasps in rural black accents. "Don't touch dat dial!" High-pitched giggles lacerate the air, quickly followed by a rough approximation of a wolf howl. "We gotta whole lotta soul comin' atcha," the voice promises. "Rock V roll wid da Wolfman. Lay yo' hand on da radio right now 'n' feeel...
...made the abrasive, one-line gag into an art form; of complications following heart surgery; in Manhattan. A onetime lifeguard, Leonard began competing in Charleston contests during the '20s, then graduated to the big-band circuit as a comedian. Portraying the angry, fast-talking fat man (his weight yo-yoed between 200 and 330 lbs.), he eventually became a frequent TV guest whose comedy format never varied-a skeleton routine augmented by ad-lib insults to audience and fellow performers alike. "I could be funny for hours on your show," he once told a rival comic, "but I wouldn...
...that if you live near the Dunster library, you will be bothered by the frequent concerts held there, and that the House seems to have "fragmented into cliques." Our lives have not been trivial and meaningless, but the yearbook suggests that life in the Houses is an endless yo-yoing from classroom to lunchline, from library to pinball-machine. The writers seem compelled to distinguish their House from the others, and then can only come up with commonplaces about architecture, student stereotypes, and food. Food...