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...history (notably the Pax Britannica trilogy, an ambitious three-part work on the fall of the British Empire) to a nonstop torrent of newspaper and magazine articles. Age has not slowed her step. In July she is covering the first direct Eurostar service of the summer from London to Avignon for the Financial Times. Then off on a summer cruise-ship lecture tour. In October she will be fêted at the New York Public Library for her 80th birthday. Yet there will be no more books, save one. "I've been very ill," she says...
...delve into drama.This year, however, Martin beat out many more experienced actors in winning the prestigious Jonathan Levy Award, which the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) grants to the most promising undergraduate actor in Harvard College. Martin charts his journey to acting beginning with his summer in Avignon, France, where he enrolled in a seminar taught by a famous Parisian director, despite the fact that he was there to study government. “I fell in love with his style of acting and with acting in general,” says Martin, who performed in the Avignon...
Jess R. Burkle ’06 was working for a production in France last summer when he stumbled upon the inspiration for his senior thesis in an Avignon bookstore. The Harvard theater veteran fell in love with “Knock,” a classic French comedy by Jules Romain, upon first reading. The play follows the rise to power of the villainous Dr. Knock against the backdrop of medical hysteria in a small French town.Surprised by its lack of renown in the United States, he set about researching its history and adapting the script for American viewers...
...arts patron, Sydney Schiff, could bring together the giants he worshipped. In A Night at the Majestic, Richard Davenport-Hines brilliantly reimagines this unique-in-art-history event, setting the five-star diners in their Modernist context, between Picasso's first and shocking foray into Cubism, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1906-7, and Joyce's revolutionary novel, Ulysses, in 1922. The ambitious Schiff was pinning his hopes for the evening - and for his own reputation in the arts - on the first, and what would be the only meeting between Proust and Joyce, two novelists who, as Davenport-Hines writes...
...Gallo is continuing the pursuit, critics notwithstanding. After Red Bicyclette's success, the company released a new French wine in April: Pont d'Avignon, a Ctes du Rhne from the Rhne Valley. It's about twice the price of Red Bicyclette but boasts flavors that are more complex and reflect the Rhne terroir. Da Vinci, a new Chianti that Gallo produced with Cantine de Leonardo Da Vinci's Alberto Antinoni, hit stores last year and is similarly higher priced. Like Pont d'Avignon, Da Vinci has the slick packaging of Gallo's other imports. Here...