Word: bowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was an upbeat atmosphere in the basement of St. Paul's Church on Bow St. yesterday as potential bone marrow donors flowed through Asian American Brotherhood (AAB)'s inaugural bone marrow drive...
...Bow and Arrow Press was founded 22 years ago by James Barondess, then a student in the house. At that time presses printing from handset type were being cast off by newspapers, and type foundries were closing. Barondess went around the country buying up type and collecting the materials needed to start a press. Since then, it has been running quietly--almost secretly--in this basement under the care of one of the Adams House tutors...
...more wrapped up in the art of book-making, and printing slips into the track of her higher ambitions. Though she speaks cautiously of the future, she is considering pursuing an education in print-making. At any rate, her passion for "art on paper," is becoming at the Bow and Arrow Press much more than a hobby or an extra-curricular...
...hidden one--a world of lights in basement windows and the quiet arc of a page over a bed of text. But it is immensely rich and beautiful. In the age of online literature and the overpowering flux of screened words, the work of the Bow and Arrow press takes on a new importance. The handset type of the press upholds the integrity of literature-it upholds the ideals of poetry in which every letter, every word has its exact weight. In which the silence of a stanza break is lead-measured under the page and can be held...
...Overall, HMS Pinafore is a delightful production. The cast is full of affable characters who genuinely seem to revel in this trifling and insubstantial world, and the entire production, from bow to stern is infused with a beguiling charm. Any misgivings is ultimately redeemable because the libretto and music are entirely loveable. Besides, with any production that begins with a mandatory rendition of "God Save the Queen", it's very difficult not to have a good time. Only the most miserable curmudgeon won't go home grinning and humming after two delectable hours in this fluffy cotton-candy world...