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...music of prospective students giving him a role not unlike that of an athletic coach in the selection of admitted students. Yannatos also spends an inordinate amount of time at the beginning of each year to select the newest members of HRO. “He always likes to listen to people individually,” says Stephanie R. Hurder...
...majority of the men and women in Iraq are typical, hard-working Americans who are filled with a powerful sense of purpose, risking a much higher probability of being killed than the typical waitress or auto mechanic. One only needs to listen to the thump of mortars during the night to remember that life in Baghdad is unlike life anywhere else...
...This is an amazing record!” I tell her with dignity, while turning up the volume. “This is an important record. This record represents a seminal moment in American musical history! Listen, it’s brilliant: ‘She moved so easily/ All I could think of was sunlight/ I said, ‘Aren’t you the woman/ Who was recently given a Fulbright?”’ You’re telling me you don’t love that...
...point. Whether or not you’re willing to concede that Paul Simon’s “Graceland” represents a seminal moment in American musical history doesn’t have much bearing on whether or not you’re willing to listen to “Graceland” for six hours a day. I bought the record last week and have been playing it near-constantly since. You ought to see the interpretive dance I’ve developed to “That Was Your Mother...
Actually, my monomania vis-à-vis Paul Simon is not unique. It is just a particularly unfortunate manifestation of the monomania that consumes many of us during our Harvard careers. Living at home, I couldn’t listen to the same album over and over unmolested. (It’s not that I haven’t tried; over the summer, I kept a single mix CD in the car my brother and I share. After a few weeks, my brother threw down a gauntlet: “If I start the car and hear...