A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Always We'll Remember Graduation Day

Always We'll Remember Graduation Day

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John Mendelssohn
Mar 25, 2010
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I couldn’t bear the thought of being surrounded by another new crop of newly minted freshman hippies, and so before my senior year I moved at last from the dormitory. Alone in the studio apartment I was going to share with two others, I dashed off a diatribe against The Doors out of sheer boredom, and thus was my career as a music critic launched. Withi…

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