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Summers told a packed auditorium of Summer School students, many of whom were international students, that just a few decades ago students at the Summer School had an “exotic background” if they came from west of the Mississippi River...
...have the freshness of the team's old Columbia University Varsity Shows. On the edge of a millennium, they distill the joy of 80 years ago, when two bright kids from the Upper West Side just wanted to put on a show; when their songs turned a Manhattan theater auditorium into an aisle of joy; when each day was Valentine's Day; when every new show brought another favorite work of Hart...
...lessons on the 11th floor, "welcome to kabuki world" on the first floor, a seminar on working at home on the sixth floor. It's a busy night for the self-improvement crowd. But the main attraction on this Tuesday night in late June is holding forth in the auditorium. There, more than 2,000 people have gathered to see a man whom they believe possesses unsurpassed wisdom and power. In their eyes, Shoei Asai, the 70-year-old leader of a religious sect called Nichiren Kenshokai, is a healer and a prophet who envisions a looming calamity for Japan...
...many people flock to see Shoei Asai in Kawaguchi that dozens of latecomers must wait outside in the lobby because there isn't room for them in the auditorium. Black-suited men with walkie-talkies and earplugs roam through the crowd, reminding people to turn off their cell phones. Two of these guards, surprised to see a foreign visitor, stop me from entering before another explains that I was invited. It's the first time a journalist has been allowed to witness a Nichiren Kenshokai meeting...
...theatre project and plans for a big auditorium and overall arts center are two entirely different things, and should not be confused, President Conant warned. He pointed out that while he recognized the need for a theatre, he was less favorably disposed toward building a large auditorium...