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...nothing about al-Arian's being a tenured professor. When self-righteous citizens like the university president who dismissed al-Arian disregard the law and ignore the Constitution because they disagree with an individual's opinion, they become the very terrorists they profess to abhor. PHIL WILT Van Nuys, Calif...
DIED. DAVE VAN RONK, 65, erudite folk, blues and jazz musician known as the Mayor of Greenwich Village during the folk revival of the '50s and '60s; of colon cancer; in New York City. A mentor to the young Bob Dylan, Van Ronk offered his apartment as a gathering place for musicians like Dylan, Tom Paxton and Suzanne Vega...
...band, the Beatles. To be sure, the group’s sound is deeply rooted in rock-and-roll history. Named after folk-star Tim Buckley’s 1970 album Starsailor, the Manchester foursome bear the noticeable influence of Buckley’s better known contemporaries Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Nick Drake. Their sound also owes something to the more modern British indie sounds of groups like The Charlatans (for whom Starsailor is now opening in their first U.S. tour...
According to Van Anglen, Matthiessen’s political disappointments and the death of his partner Russell Cheney were likely factors that prompted his suicide...
Many scholars credit Matthiessen with first establishing American literature as an individuated art form in his seminal 1941 study The American Renaissance, which focuses on 19th-century authors including Whitman and Melville. While some modern critics find its focus on white male New England writers too narrow, Van Anglen said it remains influential...