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depuis 1973
Volume 30, Number 9
Passover & Maundy Thursday, 2010
waterworKs
March brings record amounts of water to the waring campus
Also inside:
“Apocalypse...Later?” by lily Fitzgerald•
le temps retrouvé•april 2010
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Le Temps Retrouvé
is the journal of the Waring School.
It is published monthly during the school year.
It contains the writings and drawings of Waring students,
teachers, alumni, parents, and friends.
It is the hope of the editors of this journal that students
(and others) keep journals and sketchbooks, that they write
and draw on a regular basis, and that when they have
things to say,
stories to tell,
poems to recite,
drawings to show,
they submit these to the editors for publication.
—p. & j. waring
Staff
Adam Levine•Emma MacLean•Martha Snow•Sam
Staples
Colleen O’Brien•Timmy Allen•Kimball
Stewart•Lauren McInnes
Brendon Pickering•Paul Hemberger •Sam Sherratt
Parker Bruce•Malcom Boomer•Izzy Hughes•Coco
Young
Alex Kyllingstad•Isabelle Rabin•Eva Heaps•Aaron
Greiner
Theo Burbank
Editorial Advisor & Layout
Antoine Boisvert
Editorial Assistants
By now, of course, most of the school is aware that there will be no April
Fool’s issue of le temps retrouvé. Looking backwards, the whole question
of whether it is possible for a small private school periodical to deal with the
kinds of inversions and reversals necessary for a successful parody is an open
question. This whole issue can easily be turned around, of course, stood
on its head, if you will. In fact, we feel that it should be. And from this
new perspective, beginning from the end, we find that a lighter and more
humorous touch is entirely possible, and even necessary. And yet it can be
balanced against our more serious efforts as well, like the two sides of coin.
le temps retrouvé•maundy thursday•april 2010
news briefs
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“SPRING BREAK!”: the Development of a Barbaric Yawp.
by adam levine
I ran out of my Friday 5th period class
last March with Zander Goepfert, and Dan
Kessler (2009) and Timmy Allen, shouting
two of the most magical words known to
students: “Spring Break!” We proceeded to
take a victory lap around the quad, not forgetting to remove our shirts. The cool wind
fluttered against our chests for the first time
in months. Free at last.
The words “Spring” and “Break”, when
put together, are in perfect harmony. The
phrase shoots out of the lips effortlessly
and blossoms into the air, like the budding
flowers of March as they rediscover life
after a treacherous February. Curiously, the
phrase has a contagious quality to it as well.
There will hardly ever be a single “Spring
Break!” shouted in joy without a chorus to
follow. Many people are perplexed by this
phenomenon. Why does hearing “Spring
Break” make one more likely to shout it out
his or herself? The answer lies with Waring
Senior, and school-renowned Spring Break
celebrator Timmy Allen. “I think it has to
do with the excitement of the times, but
also the words themselves. Spring is nice,
and everyone loves break. Together, they can
create a magical and life changing experience.” Timmy is also known for not only
going shirtless, but letting his pants fall during pre-vacation festivities. Another Waring
Senior, Emma MacLean speaks about the
contagiousness of the phrase. “I think it re-
ally helps lighten the mood. And it something short and not super disruptive and we
still get to celebrate our near freedom.”
There are other rituals to go along with
the victory lap, which seem to be catching
on. The song “Wake Me Up Before You Go
Go” by Wham! has a tendency of blasting
itself the last day of school. In addition,
the far less appropriate “Sex on the Beach”
by the Vengaboys has started to become a
staple in the rituals. Perhaps these traditions
will die once the current senior class has
graduated and other traditions will form in
their place. In any event, I hope that Waring
students continue to celebrate in their own
way, and never forget the true meaning of
Spring Break.
waring library achieves website, online catalog;
“whoa!” say students
by emma maclean
Although Librarian Sarah Carlson-Lier
has been on maternity leave for most of
2010 thus far, The Waring School Library
continues showing all the healthy signs of
attention and renewal that have marked
the last year of its development. The latest
step in this rejuvenation of our resources
is the online Waring Library Catalog. This
is all accessible through the Waring School
Library page http://fc.waringschool.org/
library/. The new website comes complete
with a “New Acquisitions” list for spring
2009, template for research logs, and even
it’s own mission statement, which reads:
“The mission of the Waring School Library
Program is to support our community of
TOO MUCH ISN’T ENOUGH
Despite record rainfalls at both
the beginning and the end of the
month of March (not to mention in
the middle, although that storm came
during Spring Break), mother nature
noticeably failed to deliver that rare
pleasure of a Waring experience, a
“Flood Day.” Pictures from the flood
may be found throughout this issue.
lifelong learners by providing the resources,
skills, and space with which to appreciate
and navigate the realms of ideas, information, and literature.” But more interesting
than any of these aforementioned additions
to this site is the online Waring Catalog,
which makes it easier for students to find
works that they need. Although there has
always been a card catalog available to
students, this will facilitate the process
of looking up books. Yes, now from the
security of your home (or from one of the
computers upstairs in the library) you can
look up books! The search bar allows you to
look up books using keyword, title, author
and ISBN code. “Wow! I didn’t have the
slightest idea the Waring Library was online,
that’s really great and EVERYONE (myself
included) should know about it. Our library
is grossly undervalued and we actually have
a pretty good collection,” said library user
Amanda Lewis. Indeed, the lack of knowledge about the library permeates the school.
“I didn’t know what the Waring School
Library was... no, really, what is that?”
asked confused Waring Senior Timmy Allen
when contacted for comment. But he need
not worry anymore. The library, which has
slowly but surely been making its transition
away from classroom and into a resource,
has made the leap to the 21st century. Hopefully this new attempt to get online will
keep everyone using the materials so readily
available to us.
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVES
Group Two is to be congratulated on
a successful and incident-free* trip to and
from Angers, a town in France which has
been hosting Waring students for over a
decade now. A large selection of Angers
writing, as well as the annual photo contest
may be found at http://fc.waringschool.org/
angers10/
*For an example of a possible “incident,”
see Sam Staples article later in this issue.
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le temps retrouvé•passover•april 2010
theater notes:
more than merely players...
by martha snow
Before I became involved in Waring
theater, the process was always a mystery
to me; a group of students would sign up
at the beginning of sports and then three
months later, seemingly out of nowhere, a
fully formed play was ready. No one knew
what went on inside the theater in those
intervening months, though there were always rumors about Holly Little’s emotional
frenzy, costume malfunctions, sickness, and
other backstage drama. But now that I have
experienced it firsthand, I can give you,
reader, a peek behind the curtain into the
ever elusive world of Waring theater.
The cast of winter theater decided on
the show Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are
Dead, a take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, very
quickly; in fact, it was the only play we
read before we chose. Though it may have
seemed an odd choice to pick a play that
realistically only has 4 main characters when
we had a cast of nearly 20, we were all attracted to Tom Stoppard’s witty banter and
humorous, sarcastic tone. We soon realized,
however, that what made Stoppard so amazing, also made him confusing. Throughout
the process, we tried to pin down exactly
what the play meant, and none of us, not
even our director Holly Little, could do it.
So if you saw the play, and didn’t understand everything that happened, don’t
worry; neither did we.
Tom Stoppard can also err on the side
of wordiness at times, and our two main
characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
(played by Adam Levine and Parker Bruce)
learned an insane number of lines. Additionally, Joshua Scott-Fishburn, in a fit
of carpentry genius, produced an amazing
wooden cart for the tragedians to use.
Along the way, we met some obstacles:
through snow days and missing food sagas
(one day, there were drinks but no cups,
the next, cups but no drinks!) we managed
to pull it together through tech week. One
of the most challenging aspects of the play
for many of us was the hair: we teased and
tangled our hair until it stuck out a foot
from our heads, and then spray painted it
white. To say the least, it was hard to get
into place. Backstage was a chaotic scene of
hairspray, face paint, and carrots.
Nerves were high before both performances (and it didn’t help that everyone’s
white makeup made the backstage look like
a scene from an awful clown horror movie!)
but we were soothed by Stan the Light
Man’s gripping tales about his very unique
life. We stepped on stage, and before anyone
knew it, it was the end of Act 2. The play
that we had spent months preparing went
by in a whirlwind of entrances and exits,
frilly umbrellas and manly white stockings,
but the silent moments backstage as we listened to the soliloquies outside the curtain
seemed to suspend time. It’s a strange thing
to get engrossed in a play that you have seen
a million times and at every stage in the
process, but when Parker killed Emma at
the end of Act 3, I believed it.
Is this a play which I see
before me?
vows to kill Macbeth and Malcolm’s army
moves forward to Scotland.
Five years ago, our seniors performed this
play with the exquisite Emma MacLean as
the king himself, who will now be helping
this year’s group one to perform. “I have
to say TAing a play that I was in is a bit of
a bizarre experience. It is useful because at
least I am coming to the table with a better
understanding of the work. But the very
strange thing is that I wrote all my blocking into my script when I was in group 1
so now when I am running scenes or lines
I have mini flashbacks to when I did the
show. Overall though I absolutely love TAing.” Emma MacLean says. Emma Behnke
was Emma MacLean’s other half and Parker
Bruce, Caroline Glaenzer, and Lauren McInnes were the three witches. Both amazing
casts, but with Joey Towers as the drunken
porter how can this year’s Group One lose?
“It is going to be quite enjoyable. I
think that it was shaky at first but since
after break I can feel the energy compiling
into an indescribable mass of a theatre production, ready to exhilarate everyone in the
audience until the very end. There is death
too, so you should come.” Joey Towers says.
There will be crying, punching, romance
(there’s rumored to be a kiss?!) , insanity,
and, of course, plenty of murder. What’s
not to love? The curtain goes up on Friday
April 16th.
by malcolm boomer [no relation]
The Group One Play is upon us all. And
this year, it will be Shakespeare’s tragedy
Macbeth.
Macbeth was written for King James’
coronation as King of England, having
already been King of Scotland for 36 years.
To give all of you who weren’t here four
years ago a taste of the play, here’s a very
short summary. Three witches, played
by Rowena, Eleanor, and Elizabeth, tell
Macbeth, played by both Mary and Ayla,
a thane, that he will be king of Scotland.
Lady Macbeth, played by Rosie, convinces
him to kill Duncan, the reigning king. He
does and then becomes king, fulfilling the
prophecy. He becomes convinced he must
kill his friend Banquo and Banquo’s son,
Fleance, seeing as Banquo was told by the
witches that his sons would become the
kings after Macbeth. He goes back to the
witches who show him the apparitions
to tell him to watch out for Macduff, the
thane of fife. Meanwhile, Lady Macbeth
slips into madness as her husband plots
the death of Macduff. After Macduff flees
to England to join in Malcolm, Duncan’s
son’s army against Macbeth, Macduff
Emmas Mac & Behnke as Mr & Mrs MacBeth
le temps retrouvé•maundy thursday•april 2010
A Piece of Mexican Heaven on Cabot Street
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restaurant review by lauren mcinnes lada, accompanied by black beans
sweet and savory flavors. SpiceSince the 2008 closing of popular Mexiand rice, will set you back
lovers take note, all their
Recommended
can chain “Baja Fresh”, Beverly has been
$9.25. The burritos are great
dishes are mild, but you can
Dishes:
hopelessly devoid of mainstream Mexican
for sharing, a good value at
ask for you meal with any
Tacos flau: Corn crispy flutes
fare. But if you’re looking for something a
$7.95, and large enough
level of spiciness. Those
stuffed with chicken or beef
little more authentic, and are willing to ento feed a small country.
who prefer chunky
topped with cheese, sour cream
dure the wait, look no further than familyI have been to the
salsa might take issue
and guacamole. $5.00
run restaurant “Cielito Lindo” meaning
restaurant four times
with the restaurant’s
Enfrijoladas Chicken or sausage
“Beautiful little sky/heaven” in Spanish. since first discovering
take, which is much
topped with black bean Sauce and
The restaurant is unassumingly nestled
it on a quiet snowy
smoother and more
cheese. Served with fried plantains.
between unmarked buildings
night last
liquid than what you
$11.95
on Cabot St, marked by
might expect,
Tacos de Chorizo: Grilled Mexican
a green awning, and
On my fourth
Cielitolindogrill.com
sausage on flour tortillas with
colored lights strung
visit, we got in immeHours:
cheese and garnished with pico
casually in the
diately, but despite the
Mon-Thurs: 11:30 am-2:30 pm, 5 pmde gallo, chipotle and guacawindows. The
relative emptiness of the
9:30 pm
mole. rice+ beans. $10.95
interior is adorned
restaurant (on a WednesFriday: 11:30 am- 2:30 pm, 5 pm-10 pm
with traditional
day night), we waited over
Saturday: 11:30 am-3:30, 4:30 pm-10:30 pm
Mexican folk art,
half an hour for our food. with yellow spongemonth,
However, I have found the food
painted walls and
and have sampled
well worth the occasionally long
bunches of shiny ceramic
three different enchiladas
wait. From my experience, and in tune
vegetables hanging from the walls. (de mole, verdes with green tomawith many of the reviews on the restaurant’s
If they want to, patrons can feel free to
tillo sauce, and enfrijoladas). My favorite
“yelp.com” page, service is hit or miss. On
approach the kitchen, which is visible from
dish has been the “Tacos de Chorizo”, a
two out of four occasions, my meal arrived
the dining area. On all nights of the week,
plate of 3 small flour-tortillas stuffed with
in a timely manner. Sometimes in order
especially weekend nights, the restaurant is
chorizo (Mexican sausage), topped with
to get the homemade, high quality cuisine
bright and bustling, packed so tightly that it their absolutely incredible homemade guathat “Cielito Lindo Grill” offers, you have
is difficult for the servers to navigate around
to wait. Making real food takes time, and
the tables. Beware, on Fridays or Saturthose looking for a bland, 5-minute taco
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
days, you’ll be hard pressed to score one of
should take their business elsewhere. If
Price Range: $$
their several modest-sized tables without a
satisfying, authentic, and flavorful Mexican
Parking: Street
reservation.
cooking is what you seek, I highly recomAttire: Casual
The Morila family, led by father Alex,
mend taking a trip to Cabot St and seeing
Takes Reservations: Yes
emigrated from their native Mexico in
what “Cielito Lindo” has to offer. Delivery: Yes **note: While Cielito
2003, settled down, and opened the resLindo delivers, it is necessary to mentaurant in September of 2006. According
tion that a few of the employees have
to Alex, their most popular menu item is
some difficulty with English, and it
their enchiladas, which have been quietly
might just be easier to pick it up if
becoming a Beverly-local favorite since the
your address is complicated.
restaurant’s opening. “Cielito Lindo” is
Take-out: Yes
reasonably priced, but not as cheap as your
typical Mexican fast food. A simple enchicamole, which
is made right
at your table. Another notable side is the
fried plantains
topped with a
delicate white
sauce, which
combines just
the rest level of
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le temps retrouvé•passover•april 2010
honor and anger(s) recollected in tranquility
by sam’l b. staples
On my first night at North Woods, in
2006, I remember Emily Wright, one of
my seniors, explaining to my tutorial what
had happened during the previous spring’s
French Trip. The juniors, most of them,
had decided to take advantage of the more
relaxed liquor laws abroad by obtaining
(secretly) a significant amount of alcohol
to celebrate the last night of their trip. One
student drank so much as to fall unconscious and have to be taken to the hospital.
My life at Waring having begun scant hours
before, I had no idea what to make of the
events being detailed to me, so I could not
understand their significance to the community. Mere months later, following my
class’ return from Angers, a number of my
classmates were suspended, some for the
remainder of the year, after it was discovered
that they too had purchased and consumed
alcohol overseas.
As bad as that would have been under
normal circumstances, the gravity of their
actions was compounded by what had just
happened on French Trip. The school was
split. Many people felt that the punishments
that resulted from the Angers incident were
too harsh, that there had not been enough
done to dissuade such activities (juniors
had been allowed to drink small amounts
of wine on previous Waring trips owing to
its significance to French culture, I believe),
or that the administration was making an
example of these students in an attempt to
halt drinking on future trips. It was a trying time for all, and I, then quite new, was
under-qualified to comprehend the extent of
the damage.
Beneath it all, much of the debate that
resulted centered on our school’s honor
code, the closest thing Waring had at that
time (there are now a number of explicit
disciplinary measures related to a variety
of specific offenses in our handbook) to
written rules. In case you are not familiar
with it, the honor code essentially states
what most of us accept as common sense,
something to the effect of, “If you see someone doing something inappropriate, ask
them to stop. If they do not, tell someone
about it.” Simple enough, but then why
bother writing about it? It strikes me that
not everyone —nearing half the student
body at this point—has seen our school’s
ideology stretched as far as I did in my first
year, and even those that have might benefit
by considering this aspect of our school’s
philosophy.
The French and Angers trips of 2006
presented the community with two extremes
—one instance in which the code failed,
and a second in which a student followed
through on the obligations it imposes. I do
not wish to dwell too long on the instances
themselves, simply to establish that when
the honor code was ignored a student’s life
was jeopardized, but when it was acted upon
the resulting suspensions, even in the wake
of French Trip, sparked a bitter debate, and
several departures from the school.
Our honor code, a statement of what
would seem to be our fundamental social
responsibility (“If you see something bad or
inappropriate happening, try to stop it”),
eschewal of which may have serious repercussions, is nevertheless railed against when
its protocols are followed. I understand that
the two events I am comparing here are
different, but I ask that you consider theory
alone, and disregard any emotional attachment to either particular situation. There is
an objective right and wrong, and to deny
that is to question the civil structure of both
Waring and society at large (not reprehensible maybe, but most likely futile). If you
agree with the principal from which our
honor code takes its form there ought to be
no argument.
It is difficult, especially given our strong
sense of community, to hold to such absolutism. Our perception of an individual’s
actions, however inappropriate, will be unflaggingly tempered if we know them, like
them, see them five days a week. Except in
extreme cases concerning the direct
endangerment of specific people, we
are most likely to let someone eating
where they aren’t supposed to or kicking a ball too close to the gym lights
pass with, at most, a verbal nudge.
In such cases I imagine the Waring
Honor Code is miles away, that the
action a product of sensibility and
good conscience. This is simply how
we operate. I asked a number of
Group 2 students while they were in
Angers if they felt any added pressure
to behave or take responsibility for
their peers’ actions, and was invariably told me that they did not. And
that is not a problem.
The beauty of our honor code
is that, for the most part, all it asks
is for our community to do what is commonly accepted as right and good. It trusts
that each of us will shoulder some of the
responsibility of ensuring the safety and well
being of Waring and our peers. It is, like
many facets of our school, an ideal. And we,
as we are wont to, do remarkably well living
up to it. However, ideals are always tested
by extremes, and the unfortunate events of
2006 certainly tested ours. Since then we
have made changes to our handbook and
disciplinary systems (the formation of the
SAC was a direct result of students’ desire
for more formal participation in disciplinary decision making following discussions
of Angers), but I do not think that we have
overcome the doubt and bitterness that
shocked our school when faced with the difficult implications of high ideals.
Although we all are directed towards perfection, we will inevitably fall short, and I
do not doubt trauma such as I have detailed
will again confront Waring. I am not writing to criticize anyone’s actions, but because
I think it is of the utmost importance for
us to remember our mistakes—what was
forgotten, how we reacted—so that we may
continue to better ourselves. Something like
our honor code need not be foremost in our
minds as we conduct our daily business, but
we can not dispense with its implications
when that becomes the difficult thing to do.
If anything was demonstrated by the misfortunes in 2006, I hope it is that we should
all consider our ideals when faced with a
difficult decision. We as part of Waring, or
any endeavor we may come to face, can only
progress by keeping them in mind.
le temps retrouvé•maundy thursday•april 2010
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with
Lily
Fitzgerald
Apocalypse…Later?
by lily fitzgerald, staff
I sat in the dark movie theater, popcorn
in hand, ready to see some typical romantic
comedy. As the lights dimmed, the words
“Mankind’s Earliest Civilization,” (insert
picture of a Mayan Temple) “Warned Us”
(picture of the world from space), “This Day
Would Come.” Then, chaos erupted.
I watched as the world ended, the Sistine
Chapel began to break, the Vatican toppled
over and began rolling towards the screen,
and Christ the Redeemer broke into pieces.
People prayed, screamed, fire burst from
random areas on the screen, and oceans
swallowed New York. And then the phrase
“The End Is Just The Beginning” appeared.
I couldn’t help but laugh. Really? The world
was going to end in 2012?
I’ve never understood why people want
to predict when the end of the world is.
Films like The Knowing or even 2012 suggest that we actually know, or have some
inkling of when the end of the world is
going to come. Scientists have disputed the
ancient idea that the world actually will end
in 2012. They will admit though, to the
universe and the sun expanding, though
probably won’t annihilate us.
Another phenomenon is trying to predict
why the world the will end. World War
III (aka Human Wars) is a popular theory,
however extremely depressing. This theory
was brought to the table in the 1950’s during the Cold War. People feared a nuclear
war, and during the Vietnam War, people
once again began to wonder whether World
War III would happen. This theory ran
its course well into the 80’s and early 90’s.
However, the fear subsided in the 90’s,
only to brought up again post September
11th. People today still worry that the world
will engage in nuclear combat, and destroy
ourselves in the process. As much as this is
a threat, I personally doubt it will happen
because world leaders should and do know
better.
Plague is another path to the end of the
world. While in Italy, I read The Children
Apocalypse later?
of Men by PD James, in which all women
are infertile and there hasn’t been a single
baby born in twenty years. I Am Legend was
about how everyone got measles and dies, or
becomes infected and then quarantined. In
both of these books/movies, the human race
is helpless against diseases, an idea that we
have tried endlessly to erase. When new diseases (H1N1 for example) appear, everyone
freaks out because there is no vaccination
and believes the disease would therefore be
not curable.
There is also a lot of speculation that
mysterious things from space will come
down to earth and demolish us. This year
there is a new film called Meteor Apocalypse
coming out, about a meteor that comes into
the Earth’s orbit and starts
to scatter debris all over
the earth. Meteor mayhem
is expressed in movies like
The Road, Deep Impact, and
Armageddon. In movies like
Transformers and District 9
(not to mention the TV series V) the possibility of an
alien invasion has come up
again. This idea is definitely
popular among little kids.
I highly doubt that
many of us truly believe
in an alien invasion, or
that the entire world will
rip itself apart because
we hate each other. I also
understand that many of
these books and movies are
fiction, but there has to be
a reason why they are so
popular and entertaining.
I believe that we are
fascinated with the unknown. If a person reads
a book that doesn’t have
a plot line, that person is
not interested in the book
at all. Rather, they just say,
“hey, this book is really boring!” and stop
reading it. Movies that have no plot line
are often turned off before it ends. Humans
want to know what happens. They want to
have something happen. We can’t just deal
with nothing happening. We always want
to know what is happening tomorrow: is it
going to rain? Who is going to do meeting?
Are we going to win the soccer game?
Predicting the end of the world seems
dramatic, however, it gives people something to do. Movies like 2012 entertain us
because they give us something to think
about. It’s a topic of conversation. Ever since
2012 came out, I’ve heard more and more
people start a conversation about how the
world is going to end.
linocut by paul hemberger
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le temps retrouvé•passover•april 2010
pop charts
21 February to 28 March 2010
First Anniversary Charts
Top 40 Artists!
1. Lady Gaga (1)
2. Kanye West (2)
3. Vampire Weekend (2)
4. Kid Cudi (4)
4. Jack Johnson (12)
6. Lil’ Wayne (22)
7. The Beatles (7)
8. Guster (re-entry)
9. Death Cab for a Cutie (13)
10. Ingrid Michaelson (new)
10. Passion Pit (6)
10. The Grateful Dead (re-entry)
13. Jay-Z (4)
14. Weezer (16)
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers (13)
15. MGMT (8)
15. Phoenix (22)
15. Regina Spektor (13)
15. Ke$ha (9)
15. Shwayze (16)
21. CAKE (re-entry)
22. Sufjan Stevens (24)
23. The Who (re-entry)
24. Sublime (re-entry)
24. N.W. Di Mauro (31)
24. The Decemberists (new)
27. U2 (re-entry)
27. The Roots (re-entry)
27. Cat Power (re-entry)
27. Dispatch (new)
27. Simon and Garfunkel (re-entry)
32. Charlie Mitchell (new)
33. Beyonce (24)
33. Modest Mouse (16)
33. Slightly Stoopid (new)
36. Britney Spears (16)
36. The Shins (34)
36. The Postal Service (re-entry)
36. Chiddy Bang (new)
36. Drake (24)
36. Rihanna (11)
Perennial Favorites
One year ago, ltr published Waring’s first set of Pop Charts. In honor of that anniversary we would like to salute artists who were on that first chart, and are still on our charts
today.
Artists Current Position Kanye West Jack Johnson The Beatles Death Cab for Cutie Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Roots 2
4
7
9
15
27
3/09
No. of times charted
3
10
5
1
7 8 9
8
10
8
9
4
Top 15 Tracks!
1. “You and I” • Ingrid Michaelson (new)
2. “Bad Romance” • Lady Gaga (5)
2. “Little Secrets” • Passion Pit (new)
4. “Daylight” • Matt and Kim (new)
4. “Rude Boy”• Rihanna (new)
6. “Sleepyhead”•Passion Pit (1)
7. “Get U Home”• Shwayze (new)
7. “Hey, Soul Sister”• Train (new)
7. “Love and Happyness”• Charlie Mitchell (new)
7. “Feel Good Inc.”•Gorillaz (new)
7. “Fidelity”• Regina Spektor (new)
7. “Don’t Be Shy”• Shwayze (new)
7. “Such Great Heights”• Iron and Wine (new)
7. “Boys Boys Boys”•Lady Gaga (new)
7. “Let’s Get it On”• Marvin Gaye (new)
Top 20 Albums!
1. Phoenix• Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2)
1. Lady Gaga• The Fame (3)
3. Vampire Weekend •Vampire Weekend (re-entry)
3. MGMT •Oracular Spectacular (1)
5. Lady Gaga • The Fame Monster (3)
6. Ingrid Michaelson•Girls and Boys (new)
7. Passion Pit •Manners (new)
7. Rihanna•Rated R (new)
9. Lauren Hill •The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (new)
9. Modest Mouse •Good News for People who love Bad News (re-entry)
11. Shwayze• Shwayze (new)
11. Vampire Weekend • Contra (new)
11. CAKE• Fashion Nugget (re-entry)
11. N.W. DiMauro • Oh, the Humanity! (new)
11. Charlie Mitchell • BeatBuckitz Vol. 1 (new)
16. Guster• Keep it Together (new)
16. Matt and Kim • Grand (new)
18. David Guetta • One Love (new)
18. Kid Cudi• Man on the Moon: The end of the day (new)
18. Ingrid Michaelson • Be OK (new)
le temps retrouvé•maundy thursday•april 2010
The Ring of Fire
Country Music at Waring
by sam sherratt
“Have you ever heard of Lady Antebellum?”
“What?”
“Lady Antebellum?”
“Oh no I haven’t.”
This response is not uncommon to hear
around the Waring campus. Going to the
gym during lunch you are more likely to
hear Coreletts sing (in a high pitch) along
with Sean Kingston and the Black Eyed Peas
than Blake Shelton or Miranda Lambert.
When riding to and from Varsity sporting
events, requests for Jamin’ 94.5 and KISS
108 over power the one request for Country 102.5. The 5th highest selling album,
according to www.billboard.com, is “Need
You Now” by the super group of country
Lady Antebellum. Yet for some reason the
majority of the Waring community has not
been introduced to this group or any other
country artist.
Part of the reason could originate from
the preconceptions people have about
“country” music. Nick Wigglesworth, Liam
Boyd, and Kristina Lewis all said that the
first thing that popped into their head when
I said “country music” were cowboy hats
and acoustic guitars. This was not surprising to hear. A large majority of country
singers past and present wear cowboy hats.
The “king of country” George Strait is rarely
seen without one adorned atop his head.
He tends to sing songs with a little twang
in them and heavy acoustic guitar chords.
He is what I would call generic country and
what most people would define as country
music. If you were to think up a country
song you would imagine him singing it. But
he’s not the only artist who is never seen
without a cowboy hat. Recent sensation
Jason Aldean, who won the CMA award
for Best New Male Vocalist in 2006, is also
a cowboy hat lover. You can’t find a Google
image of him without one. His style relies
a little more on a full band as opposed to
a single guitar. There are songs, like “She’s
Country,” that could pass as a rock song if
there were no vocals. He can also deliver
truly beautiful ballads like “The Truth” and
“Amarillo Sky.” There is nothing generic
about his voice or the instrumentation in
his songs.
Toby Keith also falls into the category of
cowboy hat wearer, and he cannot be more
different from George Strait. His lyrics are
less and less about love lost and found and
more and more about how Republicans and
patriots are the greatest people in the world.
But whether you are left or right you can’t
help but laugh at songs like “High Maintenance Woman” and “American Ride.”
And you cannot help but feel patriotic after
listening to “American Soldier” and “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue.” You don’t
get that with the generic country singer.
If you are in the mood for a honky tonk
party song, there are hundreds of country
songs at your disposal, such as “Honkytonk
Badonkadonk” by Trace Adkins. If you want
to hear a moving ballad, there are hundreds
of country songs at your disposal, such
as “Why” by Rascal Flatts. If you want to
vent about your dysfunctional ex, there are
hundreds of country songs at your disposal,
such as, well, almost everything by Carrie
Underwood.
Not all country music is six-string pickin
by the fire with a thick southern drawl,
though there are some very good songs
like that. The Zac Brown Band is a perfect
example of how expansive country is. They
recently won the Grammy for Best New
Artist in a year dominated by Beyoncé and
Lady Gag(a). When you listen to their
music you would call it country, yet you
wouldn’t relate it to a Johnny Cash or
George Strait. They have a prefect blend of
soothing vocals and beautiful backing instruments, reminiscent of Alison Krauss and
Union Station (If you haven’t heard them,
wow. Check them out). Their hits “Toes”
and “Chicken Fried” have simple lyrics and
simple yet brilliant melodies. You end up
hitting the replay button more than you
would expect listening to a country album.
I recently introduced Nate DiMauro to the
ZBB. Before the Zac Brown Band I listened
to snippets of country music here and there.
I never really liked the music, but I loved
the kick-ass American attitude. Nate, who
says his love of folk-rock helped to bridge
the gap to country music, said that despite
his preconceptions of country music, Zac
Brown band is really, really good. He’s got a
great voice, he’s an incredible guitarist, and
all the guys in his band are amazing musicians. He just has some really good, catchy
hooks, and the musicianship demonstrated
on the record makes it really enjoyable to
listen to.” Though their singles are found on
97.5 FM and 102.5 FM, the two leading
country music stations in the Boston area,
their style defines yet another sub-genre of
country music.
So not all country musicians sound the
same and you can find the one that hits that
sweet spot for you. But the barrier between
the majority of Waring students and this
sweet spot is not only the picture they
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create of what a country artist looks and
sounds like. When I asked Aaron Greiner
and Adam Levine who came to mind when
I said country music, they both said Taylor
Swift. Whether you think she completely
sold out on country music or not, you have
to admit that what she does sells. Her album
Fearless won the Grammy for top album
this past year. A big reason she is a household name is the fact that she didn’t confine
herself to the country music stations. She
sold the rights to her songs to stations like
KISS 108, where her songs were morphed
from guitars and fiddles to synthesizers.
People who would not have normally tuned
into country radio now new Taylor Swift
and they see her when they think “country.”
She is the limit of many people’s country
exposure. People either like her or they don’t
and that is that. They don’t pursue country
music any further than “You Belong With
Me.”
That is what seems to have happened
at Waring. People hear only one artist and
make their judgment about country music
as a whole based off that one artist. But
country music is not like other kinds of
music. It has possibly the biggest range of
artists of any genre of music anywhere. You
can listen to ten different Sean Kingston/
Akon type songs and they all sound the
same. Since the Wu-Tang Clan ceased being
a clan many rap artists like Lupe Fiasco and
Kanye West sound identical. Individual
recording artists often record their own song
with slightly different lyrics ten times and
call it an album. You don’t get that as much
with country music. Country artists record
everything from emotional ballads to party
all night-ers. There are beautiful baritone
voices like Josh Turner as well as incredible
soprano voices like Carrie Underwood. It is
impossible to not find a country song that
doesn’t appeal to you.
It seems to be a common theme at Waring that activities that are foreign to our
community are hard to accept and get into.
NASCAR is not followed at all except for
one or two students. Hunting is not held in
a great light either. Both of these activities
find a base in the south. As a community we
don’t feel particularly attached to the south
and we therefore shut ourselves from that
culture. Country music is in the same boat.
Waring students stick southern stereotypes
onto country music, like it is all about the
beer, guitars, women, cowboys, and all the
songs have that twang and southern accent
forced on the audience. It is false to say that
this kind of country song doesn’t exist. But
to say that all country songs fall into this description would be truly foolish. Just listen.
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le temps retrouvé•passover•april 2010
April is the cruellest month
(for sports injuries)
by brendon pickering
It’s a brand new season at Waring; the
basketball players have begun to migrate
from the gym onto the minefield. Basketballs blossom into lacrosse sticks, running
shoes, and tennis rackets. Waring athletes
are frequently seen tossing around lacrosse
balls at lunch or after school, running
around the side streets of Beverly, or
entering a white minotaur to drive off to
Beverly’s tennis club. Taking advantage of
our lovely spring weather is one of the most
enjoyable activities at Waring, but sitting
on the sidelines with an injury isn’t so fun.
With a new season come the
new season’s injuries. Senior Sam Staples
says “There’s a lot of sprained ankles and leg
injuries in addition to the bruises that you
get from players lacrosse sticks.” Injuries
such as bruises are unavoidable in a rough
contact sport like Lacrosse, but sprained
ankles and common leg injuries can be
avoided. Running coach Tim Bakland says,
“I am convinced that the best key to injury
prevention in running -- perhaps even more
than stretching -- is building up your mileage and speed gradually and over a good
period of time. Without fail, just about all
of my injuries in the past several years have
been the result of sudden spikes in mileage
or in speed. It’s all about the gradual build
up and it’s a question of weeks and months,
not days, to reach new thresholds -- from a
5k, to a Marathon, or to taking 20 seconds
off your mile pace.”
Leg Injuries such as shin splints
and sprains are avoidable; most injuries
are due to a high intense workout on weak
muscles that have not been exercised for a
long period of time. The best way to avoid
a leg injury in the first week of Spring
Sports is to take it easy, using a preseason
week to get the body back into shape. Putting 100% on the field might sound like it
shows everyone that you’re committed to
the team but the fact is that if you haven’t
exercised in the past month or haven’t been
stretching regularly, your chance of having
an injury will be greater.
There are two types of sports
injuries, acute injuries and chronic injuries.
An acute injury occurs suddenly when you
are playing; sprained ankles strained backs
and fractured hands are acute injuries.
According to www.carolinaorthopaedic.
com the signs of an acute injury are sudden
severe pain, swelling, a bone or joint that is
visibly out of place, and not being able to
put weight on a leg, knee, ankle, or foot.
Chronic injuries occur after you play a
sport or exercise for a long period of time.
The signs of a chronic injury are, pain when
you exercise, an aching feeling when you
rest, and swelling.
For all the runners out there,
one of the most common complaints
during a cross-country season is “My feet
hurt.” The most common cause of foot
pain is known as over-pronation. Normal
pronation is when the foot adapts to the
ground. Over pronation is when the arch
flattens and collapses and soft tissues in
your feet stretch. This causes joint surfaces
to work at weird angles to each other and
they soon become very lose and flexible
instead of being stable. According to www.
sportsinjuryclinic.net , there are a few ways
to tell if you over-pronate when you run,
1.when you are standing your heels lean
inward
2. When you’re standing one or both of
your kneecaps turn inward
3. You develop knee pain you are active,
the pain goes away slowly when you rest.
4. You wear out the soles of your shoes
very quickly.
If you over-pronate when you
run you are very likely to feel arch pain,
shin splints, knee pain, and you are more
susceptible to ankle sprains because the
muscles in your ankle are not stable.
Luckily over-pronation is very
easy to treat; orthotics and insoles can help
with your foot problems. Orthotics and
Insoles exert gentle and consistent pressure
to bring your foot muscles and back into
alignment. According to www.runnersrescue.com, around 80% of the population
have structural problems in their feet. So if
you feel arch-pain, shin splints, or pain in
your knee you might want to consider getting orthotics for your shoes to help correct
the problem.
A couple ways to avoid injuries
that only take a few minutes are stretching,
and yoga. As you exercise less and less your
muscles will become tighter, tight muscles
have a decreased range of motion and at
the same time you are more susceptible to
injury. Stretching can increase the range of
motion for muscles, which means that your
limbs and joints can move further before an
injury occurs. Yoga works along the same
principles as stretching, muscle flexibility
and range of motion is increased. At the
same time yoga also helps build upper body
strength with poses like “upward dog” and
the “plank pose.”
Yoga and stretching are a nontime consuming activity that you can do
while watching TV or after a sports practice.
They will help prevent injuries by making
your muscles more flexible and at the same
time strengthening them.
For all you Waring student-athletes
or anyone who just likes to stay in shape
these tools are a great place to start the new
season.
Lacrosse: What will this
Spring Bring?
by colleen o’brien
The frigid days and light flurries of winter are coming to an end as they pave the
way for the showers and flowers of spring
bringing with them the return of helmets,
cleats and lacrosse sticks. This season, Ambrose Devaney returns to coach the Girls’
Varsity and after several years of coaching
the Boys’ JV, Tim Greiner takes up the
post of Boys’ Varsity head coach. There
has already been lots of enthusiasm from
both teams, practicing in the gym during
lunch and after school. The Girls’ Varsity
ended their season last year with a record of
7-3-0 and prepare to match up against their
newly found rival Montrose this spring.
Senior Captain Clare Stanton is “looking
forward to another amazing lacrosse season
with a talented team”. The Girls look to
add new games to their schedule against
teams outside their league such as The Winsor School. The Boys’ Varsity prepare for
their first match-up of the season against
Landmark. Senior Captain Sam Staples
says he has “high hopes” for this season and
sees “healthy commitment and good strong
coaching” in the season to come. We hope
both teams can have successful and rewarding seasons this spring.
le temps retrouvé•april 2010
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book review:
le temps retrouvé•reviews & entertainment•april 2010
A Life Once Closed
Now
Open
review by brendon pickering
The memoirs of a successful professional athlete usually greeted with excitement, and Open an autobiography by
Andre Agassi does not fail to disappoint.
Open has found its way into sports bags all
across the nation, and that is the autobiography of the legendary American athlete
Andre Agassi. His book Open discusses his
life and tennis his reactions to the sport,
how his family affected how he looked at
the game, and how his garbled social life
affected the way that he played throughout
his career. Open highlights the struggles of
a professional athlete and how the media
and the public interpret his actions.
Open talks about the pressures and
consequences of the life of a professional
athlete. Agassi frequently states that he
“hates” tennis and would like nothing
more then to get out of it. Andre was
forced into tennis by a ferocious father
who sent him at a young age to the Bollettieri tennis academy, which Agassi tells
us, is like a “glorified prison camp.” He
goes on later to tell us how he made his
way through his up and rising career, he
tells us that most of his success was due
to his gather figure Gil (his trainer), who
once guarded Agassi’s house when he was
threatened.
Andre narrates his book like he’s telling
life lessons, you can tell that he honestly
regrets taking crystal meth and he repeats
that having real friends surrounding you
is the best way to be happy in life. Agassi’s
method of narration is very pleasing, he
talks to the reader like a father just passing
on life lessons. His book follows the jagged
line of his life, one that rises and falls with
his social life. He frequently points out
how the media misinterprets his actions
and he feels sympathy for the upcoming
American athletes such as Andy Roddick
and James Blake.
An aspect that may keep a potential
reader away from this book is that is the
fear of technical Tennis talk throughout
the book. But that is not the case with
Open. It deals with the social struggles and
triumphs of Andre Agassi throughout his
life, this is a book for anyone who is interested in how professional sports can bring
consequences in the life of an athlete.
du coté du chez
by kimmy stewart
The worldwide commotion that erupted
after the earthquake in Haiti has begun
to subside. During the first few weeks
after the disaster there was frenzied talk,
Facebook groups sprouting up in support
of relief efforts, and photographs in every
newspaper. Now, nearly two months after
crisis struck, we have put Haiti on the
backburner. No longer are there front-page
articles or even much talk about the situation in Haiti. And yet the condition of the
country is still dire. With the approaching
rain, shelter is insubstantial. People still
live with little to eat. The state of chaos
remains, and yet here, back home, things
seemed to have calmed down, heavy emotions concerning the crisis have receded.
As a busy 17-year-old, I find little time
to read the newspaper. My mornings before
school are rushed as I hastily wolf down a
bagel before darting out the door, leaving
myself no time to scan the headlines let
alone read stories. Once home at the end of
the day I’m too tired to do anything more
than I have to. Extra reading, even newspaper articles, is low on my priority list.
I often tell myself I’ll read the front page
before bed, but I know I never will.
The earthquake that struck Haiti
in January created universal agitation. I
found myself staring down at photographs
of Haitians in front of their demolished
homes. I read the first couple paragraphs
of articles in the New York Times, once my
dad had finished with them. I watched a
six-minute video chronicling the disaster.
And I glanced at a few more pictures. That
was the extent to which I initially interacted with the crisis.
Haiti, a place of obscurity until
recently, still remains far away. The closest
I’ve come to it was during a family vacation in Florida, where I experienced warm
weather, warm water, and a harsh sun. All
I have of Haiti are photographs and stories
told second hand.
As someone living with ultimate
comfort, it’s not surprising that I have
difficulty fathoming the condition of the
Haitian people. Things I worried about
today were burning the brownies I cooked,
cutting off a pedestrian on my way to
school, and not getting my humanities
visual wet in the rain. I didn’t have to beg
for water, or lie under a tarp as I listened to
my neighbors hacking and coughing.
So how should I feel? Guilty is an
easy answer. But really, there’s nothing I can
do about my place today. I should enjoy
my hot showers and endless amounts of
food. With the vast economic differences
that separate me from the Haitians, I could
conceivably feel uneasy. If I have the option
not to read about death in the newspaper,
I’ll take it. Almost 2,000 miles separate me
from the chaos in Haiti: so what is the point
in bridging that gap? I don’t want to be
there.
When my mom returned from
her trip to Haiti where she was serving as a
journalist for Oxfam America, she told me
a story I couldn’t forget. She talked to one
Haitian woman who, after the earthquake
thought that she was living in a dream and
that each morning she’d wake up hoping
to find the dream was over. Even with my
mom having been amid the turmoil, I still
can’t grasp the enormity of the situation.
The stories she reports back are gripping,
but I can’t make much of them. They remain stories.
Upon the realization that Haiti is
slowly beginning to fade from our thoughts,
I have become more aware. With the devastation of Haiti lingering somewhere in the
back of my mind, the upcoming Junior trip
is making me feel uneasy. As a fundraising
effort to finance the trip, I (along with all
my fellow Juniors) am supposed to sell raffle
tickets. I was instructed to head to my local
post office, supermarket or street corner
and try and persuade people to buy tickets.
I haven’t been able to bring myself to do it.
I picture myself standing in the lobby of
Rite Aid, asking shoppers to please support
my class as we are planning a vacation to
Europe and need money, meanwhile a Haiti
donation jar lies nearby. I wouldn’t be able
to make a pitch for our trip stronger than
the Haitian people have made theirs. And I
wouldn’t want to.