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Gates began by reading excerpts from his memoir, including the preface in which he explained his compulsion to write “Colored People” as an attempt to preserve the rich memories of growing up colored in the 1950??s, negro in the early 60’s, and black in the later 60’s in small-town Piedmont, West Virginia, with a family who stressed the importance of education...
...just replace the mafia housewives with a horde of slow-walking tourists), it wasn’t always this way—and most Cantabrigians don’t need a book to tell them that. But the arrival of “Harvard Square: An Illustrated History Since 1950??, by Mo Lotman, has afforded long-term residents a unique opportunity to revisit—and scrutinize—the gentrification they’ve experienced over their lifetimes. “I was definitely shooting for an immersive feel,” said Lotman. Appropriately, the book...
...representative’s chief of staff. As he gushes about Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78, you realize—surprise, surprise—he’s a Democrat. Do you tell him you think Patrick’s speeches sound as corny as a 1950??s jingle? No, you just smile and nod—no reason to rock the boat, you think...
...it’s a career! They’re gonna name streets after you!” Leaf persuades Halprin with an overpowering tone and a gravelly laugh.The set, designed by Elizabeth B. Rose ’08, is a simple and yet convincing representation of a 1950??s newsroom. It consists of a few desks, chairs, some Harvard emergency red phones, and newspaper clippings hanging on the walls with some crumpled on the floor. Given its small, seemingly simple set, “The Front Page” successfully utilizes sound, lighting, and the actor?...
...everything—or even, say, half—there was to know about hip-hop.I thought such a goal might be reachable—until my comp directors unveiled “The Chart”: an enormous, carefully drawn spiderweb of black spoken culture from the 1950??s to the mid 1990’s. Martin Luther King, Jr. led to rapper-poet Saul Williams led to Grandmaster Flash through an intimidating network of chutes and ladders. Complicating matters, modern hip-hop has a rich history of allusions, invented mythologies, and shorthands. These...