Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regional elections of 1975). The Communists, on the other hand, registered a gain of about 2.5 per cent over their showing in the 1975 elections, thus obtaining roughly 34 per cent of the vote in both parts of Parliament. The losers were the smaller parties of both right and center-left: the Christian Democrats apparently gained at the expense of the neofascists (MSI) and of their allies in the "center" (the Republicans and Liberals), while the vote of the left seems to have shifted from the Socialists to the Communists. The resultant bipolarization will hardly contribute to the stability...
...intensity of the collaboration between the pros and their protegees--most of whom Gray says are intermediates--is balanced, ideally, by its informality. The four-year-old center aims to create "an atmosphere of hanging around together," Gray says...
...core of the center's program are four dance concerts presented by members of its resident company of professional dancers and choreographers, and by students in the program. Performers at night, the company metamorphoses in the daylight hours into a faculty which offers courses ranging from "Modern Technique" and "Ballet" to the less tiring "American Dance History...
...most democratic ensemble, at least when it comes to participation in its performances. While Dance Center students pool their talents with professionals on-stage and off, theater students must content themselves instead with the handful of Theatre Arts courses offered by the Summer School--in the summer the Loeb becomes the exclusive province of professionals...
...long-time advocate of granting credit for musical performance combined with analysis, Kirchner has always focused his efforts on the upper crust of Harvard musicians. "Unless you have a high-powered, hot center, the other stuff turns to garbage, like finger-painting," he says. But while Music 180, the advanced performance course Kirchner pioneered, remains relatively elite--last year it accepted only 29 of 100 applicants--the course seems downright plebeian alongside the Chamber Players...