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WHRB is offering a reward to anyone who can bring it a tape of its broadcast of the Harvard-Minnesota NCAA semifinal hockey game...
Every week, the students hear a foreign language, usually on tape and try to render its nuances in IPA. The featured language this week is Bergvall's specialty of Kikuyu, spoken by a native Kikuyu...
...college students, for many of whom a care package is the vital link with home, can imagine a more fitting punishment for their crime: the ignominious court-postal. The U.S. Postal Service patches are ripped off the shoulders of the sweaters of the disgraced pair. Their scales and scotch-tape dispensers are smashed, and they are demoted to forever sorting mail without zip codes in the Dead Letter Office. The wretches fall to their knees and beg for lenience, but their judges are firm, and a squad of uniformed mail-carriers come to haul the miscreants away. Cruel, perhaps...
Greenfield is something of a tape recorder himself, registering every inflection and hypocrisy. Paulie mimics an indulgent father: "Clothes? Certainly, darling. A nice, expensive, out-of-town college? Name one, sweetheart, and I'll get you right in. A diaphragm? Of course, precious. I'll ask your mother to pick one up for you on the avenue while she's out shopping." Greenfield's oscillation between third and first person is singular without being wholly successful, but he manages that most difficult recipe: a blend of acrimony, humor, regret and hope. Soothing...
...That tape instantly became Lewis' first single. Crazy Arms kicks off The Sun Years, along with End of the Road, which contains the spooky, defiant and haunting lines "Well, the way is dark,/ Night is long,/ I don't care if I never get home!/ I'm waitin' at the end of the road!" The new albums contain 57 songs originally issued on Sun, as well as seven others, initially slicked up with overdubbing, heard here "raw"; 77 more tracks, released pretty much at random after the Sun catalogue was sold in 1969, are presented...