Word: barbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clock on a Thursday evening, the members of the choir are seated in folding chairs in their rehearsal room at Christ and Holy Trinity Church, Westport, Conn. Bruce Barber, choir director, stoops at the piano with one foot on the sustain pedal and his eyes on his singers. He is leading them through a 300-year-old hymn, and he is not happy...
They take it again, more intensely. "No glottal stop on the 'I,' please," Barber says, breaking in. "I know it's hard." They give him a wide-open "I," then try the hymn again...
This time Barber is exultant: "Oh, altos, it was wonderful. You gave me lots of chutzpah." He beams around the room, dark eyebrows dancing up over eyeglass rims. "Now take out Hymn...
...prices are for market-rate housing, so you have to be pretty wealthy to live there," said Barber...
Prior to the city's plan, East Cambridge was a low-density industrial and commercial area, said Barber. "There has been a dramatic improvement in the whole community, and we are within three years of completion...