Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Agassiz [the neighborhood which encompasses Harvard] has a significantly lower-than-average rate for almost every measured crime," the police report reads...
Founded in 1899 by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Radcliffe's first president, RCS now boasts more than 70 members who sing at Harvard, throughout the country and around the world...
...administrator at the Agassiz preschool near Porter Square in the late 1980s when she first considered running for office...
...stage of the Agassiz Theatre is lined with cardboard columns. Strewn across the boards are big, half-painted set pieces--platforms akimbo, colliding, stairs aimed into nothing. I feel like I've walked into the closing scene of a tectonic morality play. Overhead, lights are just swinging into place over the balcony's edge. A crowd of performers is milling in the wings, brocaded and beribboned. In the pit a harpsichordist is bent over his instrument like a hermit at his orisons, wielding the tiny crucifix of a tuning key. A Cupid darts across the unclothed scene, her bow unstrung...
Perhaps modesty induced Scottish playwright C. P. Taylor to choose "good" as the title of a play that undoubtedly merits the superlative form of its headlining adjective. Certainly this was the lingering impression after watching the freshman rendition of Good, running from Oct. 22-30th at the Agassiz. Acting, plot, scenery and music all come together in this highly professional production that ultimately makes sense out of a complicated structure and story line...