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Although the initial port scene--flooded with whirling gypsies, swaggering sailors and cape-swirling bullfighters--is action-packed, the show loses some of its power by the Gypsy camp scene. Here, the Gypsy dances lag on; the onlookers seem bored rather than entertained; and Don Quixote's famous battle with the windmill fails to recreate the hilarity and excitement of the scene in Cervantes' masterpiece...
Pickman soon left Cambridge and moved to Cape Cod. But following each winter snowfall, she returned to the Yard dressed in her mourning dress and roamed in the vicinity of Holden Chapel, lamenting her loss...
...stage of the Palais Garnier, home of the Paris Opera Ballet, after a performance of his staging of La Bayadere. He needed dancers' support to stay upright. He was gaunt and emaciated, but the style was defiantly intact -- he was swathed in a huge gold-and-scarlet cape -- and so was the fiery heroism...
...everything from see the start of a coup to hike through the Rancho Grande rainforest in Venezuela; learn the lambada and other Carnival dances in Rio; party with Desmond Tutu, the mayor of Cape Town, South African students and several ANC representatives at the Bishopscourt (Tutu's residence) in Cape Town; witness and anti-Moi riot in Nairobi, Kenya; learn mantras at the Madurai Temple in India; visit biotechnology production plants, rubber plantations and the beach in Malaysia; visit the Hsin-Chu Science Park in Taiwan; tour Guangzhou (Canton) in Southern China with the mayor to several of Southern China...
...having professors from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Syracuse, Princeton, the London School of Economics, Oxford, Georgetown and the University of Pittsburgh, among other well-respected universities, Semester at Sea hosts several interport lectures. On my voyage last spring, our lectures were Bishop Tutu (Brazil to South Africa); Liberty Mhlanga (Cape Town to Kenya); Margaret Pusch (Nassau to Brazil) and Maria Ruiz-Merroth (Nassau to Venezuala). They spoke on everything from the farming practices of the Massai in Kenya to third world debt problems, the Gulf of Columbia-Venezuela conflict, apartheid (or Apart-Hate as Desmond Tutu prefers to call...