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WHEN THE Beautiful People flocked around Radcliffe graduate Gertrude Stein, Class of 1897, in the Paris of the Twenties, they probably didn't realize that their trendy Parisian salon continued a tradition started by another Harvard graduate on Beacon Hill 150 years earlier. The Great, the Undiscovered and the Unkown gathered in the "Beacon Manse" of John Hancock, Class of 1754, during the years of colonial revolt...
Harvard officials announced before the vote that they would not oppose the effort at the city council level. Louis Armistead, acting assistant vice-president for Government and Community Affairs, refused to rule out the possibility that Harvard might lobby against the bill on Beacon Hill, however...
Oddly enough, he ends up staying for a few days. Admittedly, Crossley is interesting, his stare, sort of an amused-psychotic beacon, gives the film some of its extraordinary visual power. It keeps promising that this film is about to take off and explode...
...After the Met season ended, I was in a very small opera company in the Beacon theatre in New York which did Adriana Lecouvreur by Cilea. It was their first production and it showed. In the ball scene, the ballet dancer was supposed to float in on a platform through the smoke and dance around very ethereally. But they started the dry ice too early, so in the middle of the scene before, smoke started coming up from under the setting and flooding the stage. It was very pathetic. The company has not been heard from since...
Despite attempts by other countries to rile our citizenry, Americans must make every effort to remain the beacon of liberty and justice in this repression-darkened world. Let us not sink to Iran's level by persecuting all Iranians...