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After quitting work as a free-lance writer, Phillips held his first Socrates Cafe at a Borders bookstore in Wayne, N.J., in the summer of 1996. Within a month, he met a woman named Cecilia, who was the only person to show up at one meeting. "We held a dialogue on the question What is love? and fell in love," he says. Married in 1998, the couple put their belongings in storage four years ago, and now travel year-round promoting Phillips' books and helping form new groups around the country. His first two books, Socrates Cafe (Norton; 224 pages...
...neighbor’s hobby as evidence of a character that is upstanding, so to speak. “I think it’s very courageous,” she says. “It’s a true sign of masculinity.” Her roommate, Cecilia Castillo ’07, believes that Cozzens’ unicycling is a statement of personal individuality—or someone who bikes to his own drumbeat. “The unicycle is pastel lime green. That makes it more unusual, especially with all these people walking...
Born in Rome in 1966, Bartoli was raised in a highly musical family with parents, Silvana Bazzoni and Angelo Bartoli, who were professional singers. The young Bartoli trained at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, while also acquiring much of her musical knowledge and developing her talent through parental coaching...
...sang through smiles: with expressive eyes, dancing eyebrows, palpitating breast, and alive fingers that would rub together and flicker like a dancer’s digits ornamenting the end of an extended arm suspended in reach. That is to say, Cecilia Bartoli, the internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano, flirted and seduced the audience at Symphony Hall last Friday night. As part of the FleetBoston Celebrity Series, Bartoli appeared with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment—with whom she performs and works regularly—including their most recent collaboration on her new “Salieri Album...
More recently, a portrait of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, the first person to receive a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard and a dedicated humanist, was unveiled last winter...