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Susan Archibald, an academy graduate who says she was sexually taken advantage of by an academy chaplin when she was a cadet in 1983, argues that the academy's attempt to keep the problems hidden is what has so dispirited female cadets. Says Archibald, who now runs a nonprofit for survivors of clergy abuse in Louisville, Ky.: "We know in the military that bad things are going to happen to us, in terms of going to war, dying, so you go in with the mind-set of sacrifice. But we didn't think that sacrifice means keeping your mouth shut...
...works of jazz, musicals and popular arrangements of all kinds. Not to be outdone, Harvard offers its own version in the Harvard Pops Orchestra. Last Saturday, in Lowell Lecture Hall, the orchestra performed music from the silent era, accompanied by movies starring the genre’s king: Charlie Chaplin...
Performances included Easy Street (starring Chaplin), Fatty and Mabel Adrift (starring Roscoe Arbuckle) and a compilation of Chaplin’s original movie compositions, entitled “The Reel Chaplin.” The films were projected onto a screen on the auditorium’s back wall while the orchestra played in the darkened hall. The experience of silent film with a full live orchestra was especially rare and memorable—emotions mimed by the actors onscreen are further energized by the orchestra’s proximity and musical charge...
Upon hearing the first work, “The Reel Chaplin,” it was instantly clear that the sound was too close to the audience. Given the proximity of the lower seats to the stage, no musical groups (or, at the very least, no group exceeding 10 people) should be hosted in Lowell Lecture Hall. Likewise, the angled hall’s acoustics are not at all conducive to the power of an orchestra with a prominent percussion section. During crescendos in particular, the sound reverberated off the walls and continually muddled the audience’s ears...
After “Reel,” which Assistant Conductor Michael R. Callahan ’04 led with spirited ease, Chaplin made his welcome appearance as a good old tramp in Easy Street. The inclusion of the films provided a crucial context to the music. Written entirely for the action in the film, the Easy Street music imbued the scenes with life and helped elicit smiles during the more endearing sequences...