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...according to Thomas. “They’re the best singers singing the best songs that the Kroks have had,” he adds. During the second half of the program, in which the current ensemble will perform, 18 Krok alumni from the 1940s and 1950s will join the group on stage for a rendition of the Kroks’ signature song: “Johnny O’Conner.” The program will conclude with “Loch Lomond,” during which all alumni will be invited to the stage...
...cousins.) But you won't see Diego hand-stitching the driving shoes himself. Many of the families in his factory have been with the company for several generations, at least since Dorino, Diego and Andrea's father, set up shop in Casette d'Ete in the 1940s and later began manufacturing shoes for private-label department-store brands in addition to designers like Calvin Klein and Azzedine Alaa. Dorino's father Filippo was a local cobbler whose workbench still sits in a corner on the second floor of the factory as a kind of reminder of the family...
...visiting professor, and then returned to a permanent position in 2001 as chair of the music department. In her critical writing and in her classes, she emphasizes the connection between music and social movements, specifically connecting jazz and civil rights. “In the 1930s and 1940s, jazz was viewed as entertainment, less than ‘art music,’” she says. “ People like Charlie Parker were part of a legitimization process going on in musical terms. They challenged the idea that African-American music was less.” Along...
Sarah Waters has switched gears. Her latest novel, The Night Watch, is a departure from her first three: instead of her reader-tested Victorian settings, she's jumped to the 1940s. Her mainstay of one or two central protagonists has evolved into an ensemble of characters. Oh, yeah - and the novel's narrative moves backwards in time. "It did feel like a leap of faith," reflects Waters, 39, eating satsumas in her publisher's London office. Her manner is almost shy, but she exudes a palpable self-possession. "I thought," she says, with a hint of wistfulness to her smile...
...petition circulated by a group of Harvard and MIT faculty, students, and other affiliates, urging divestment from Israel and from U.S. companies that sell arms to Israel. This call for divestment was part of a much broader political initiative by the Arab League, which has since the 1940s declared a boycott of “Jewish products and manufactured goods,” ordering all Arab “institutions, organizations, merchants, commission agents and individuals...to refuse to deal in, distribute, or consume Zionist products or manufactured goods.” (The terms “Jewish?...