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...could be a child, it could be some other tragedy--and use that pain to renew their relationship. The songs may be elegiac and romantic, but Roberts and his trio--Wynton's brother Jason Marsalis on drums and David Grossman on bass--never trade emotional complexity for easy sentiment. Accordingly, Time and Circumstance is one of those rare CDs whose liner notes--in which Roberts explains each song's intricate themes--add substantially to the understanding of the music...
...been said that out of the bad always comes good, and that sentiment certainly rang true for the Crimson. Before the myriad of injuries and subsequent losing streak, Harvard was a one-line team. The adversity not only produced confidence and maturity in the rest of the team, but there also appeared to be a deep team unity which surfaced. Thus, when the injured players returned, there was no stopping the new and improved Crimson...
...right: When he was senior tutor of Leverett House, he wrote in one of his class reports that "I maintain my humility by remembering that I cannot remember who my own senior tutor was" -- betraying an adamance not to let others write the same thing about him. That sentiment comes from a reverence for an ideal of what this place should be and an inspired personal challenge to achieve...
Paul P. Perrochi '71, former station manager for WHRB, echoed Gryk's sentiment...
...perhaps, too relentless in his grimness, too unforgiving. But there is a certain perverse integrity in his depressive's gaze, something weirdly compelling in his refusal to ingratiate himself with his audience. You keep waiting for him to crack a smile, offer a consoling gesture, express some softening sentiment. He does not. And if there is much that is withering in his contempt, there is also something bracing in the loony tunelessness of this hymn to human dispirit...