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...billion around the world. The gods of the Olympics might begin to get their bearings up at the Sacra di San Michele. Perched on a jagged rock formation nearly a kilometer above the valley that connects the city to the Alps just 80 km away, this 10th century Benedictine abbey offers a sweeping panorama of the winterland known as the Milky Way, where some 2,500 athletes will vie for gold. Look westward from the Sacra's cobblestone terrace and pick out the 3,800-m snow-capped mountains girding the resort town of Sestriere, site of the Alpine skiing...
PRIMETIME LOCATION: Lowell Lecture Hall DATES: Dec.. 16-17 DIRECTORS: Tina M. Gonzalez ’07, Chrstine M. Fitzgerald ’07, and Abbey R. Wright ’07 With a title that paid homage to the NBC television “Must See TV” campaign, “Primetime: Must-See T.V. Meets Can’t-Miss Choreography” showcased the Mainly Jazz Dance Company and TAPS in an upbeat program featuring dance pieces set mostly to T.V. show theme songs. The inventive concept was fitting for a show that seemed...
...hallway of their Currier double, they cringed. It wasn’t that their suite was tiny or unequipped. It was just, well, bland. “We didn’t want [our rooms] to be sterile,” Ching says. And COOP mirrors and Abbey Road definitely wouldn’t fly. They immediately set to work transforming their suite into a dorm-sized shrine to travel, to friendship, and to sex. Ching claims to have “a queer eye” for style; both are deeply interested in aesthetics. He calls their room...
...Moog in our Lives Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer, which produces electronically generated sound [MILESTONES, Sept. 5], could be called the Einstein of electronic music. The Beatles used the Moog in their Abbey Road album, and the synthesizer figures prominently in the score of the film A Clockwork Orange. In a March 7, 1969, story, we described the workings of the Moog: "The electronic synthesizer that bears [Moog's] name?a 4-ft.[1.25-m]-long contraption that looks like the control panel of a jet airliner with an organ keyboard grafted onto...
...monasteries go, Taizè is young- a full millennium younger than the nearby medieval abbey of Cluny. Moreover, though it now includes 13 Roman Catholic members, Taizè was founded as a Protestant community in 1940. A Swiss theology student named Roger Schutz, then 25, came to France looking for a site for a Protestant experiment in monasticism. Schutz also wanted to help refugees from Nazism and thus chose the hamlet of Taizè, near France's German-occupied zone. There he and a few colleagues spent two years hiding Jews and others fleeing persecution...In the early 1960s, without...