Author: Bill Morelock
9 article(s) found by this author.
Taste, an Accounting in Three Scenes
Spring 2013
I’d be lying if I claimed not to prefer the golf swings of Bobby Jones or Sam Snead to that of Tommy “Two Gloves” Gainey. So I guess I’m a snob.
Categories: Music, Literature
Tags: Beethoven, Taste, Decorum
Booked: The Long Sentence of an Apprentice Reader
Summer 2010
What would it mean to refuse connectedness? Is it even possible?
Categories: Literature, English
Tags: Digital world, Reading, Technology, Books
The Coming Depression
Summer 2008
I don't know about you, but I've been waiting for this all my
life. Growing up with parents born in the crash year of '29, and
with grandparents marked and ennobled by sacrifice and ingenuity in
living well with nothing, I've amounted to nothing b...
Categories: Economics
Tags: Humor, Depression
A course of one's own, or The Coffee-Can Country Club
Summer 2006
If I've never seen a prettier golf course, I suppose it's
because I built it myself, and because I was eleven.It was 1966, and in my Salem, Oregon, neighborhood, I was that
most exotic of hothouse flowers: a golfer. I loved playing
baseball. I lov...
Categories: Athletics, Alumni
Tags: WSU golf, Golf Courses
Web Extra :: Elegy: May 18, 1980
Fall 2005
Seattle, that great labor city, home of Dave Beck and big union
shenanigans, of savory dark breads in Ballard smorgasbords, of
fishermen and stevedores and roughneck sportswriters, is a
boutique. There's everything here, but less, somehow, than wh...
Categories: Alumni
Tags: In memoriam, Seattle
Winter was Hard: Music in response to tragedy
Summer 2004
Among the various responses reported by citizens in the days
after September 11, 2001, mine initially fell in the category of
walking catatonia. Numb to feeling, I experienced little or no
emotional catharsis. The event was either too big, or unbe...
Categories: Alumni, Music
Tags: Broadcasting
A common reader: Trouble in Dusty Gulch
Winter 2002
I really should be more worried about this. It's my living,
after all. For 20 years I've been presenting a kind of music so wildly
varied in time (seven centuries and more), in style (Morris dances,
Joplin rags, Mahlerian stairways to heaven, Copl...
Categories: Music, Communication
Tags: Classical music, Radio
A common reader: Overcoming inertia
Fall 2002
I’d like you to meet someone. He’s a vulnerable fellow, rather
too open to the joys and despairs of deep remembering. His life,
therefore, is disordered but rich, evocative but dangerously
reflective. He gets along, he thinks too well, he cuts...
Categories: Literature
Tags: Reading
A Titan's Tale
Summer 2002
Bill Nollan didn't like not understanding. So he drove his athletes and his students ever harder. As if their lives depended on it.
Categories: Memoirs, Athletics, Alumni
Tags: Football