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Instead of one compact complex, the Humanities Quad will now include Boylston Hall, physically isolated from the southeast corner of the Yard...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Humanities Complex Misses Original Purpose | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...couple and their American-born, black children is Flensburg, a city north of Hamburg and an ocean's divide from U.S. soil. Had the Wilhelmis been Americans from another U.S. state, they could not have removed the children from Pennsylvania without complying first with the terms of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. That means a review of their paperwork in both Pennsylvania and their home state, a process that typically takes up to two weeks. Instead the Wilhelmis had only to spend a day obtaining passports for the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Babies for Export | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

...Alexander posits, the first movie star to project androgyny. (See the early films of Gary Cooper and Cary Grant.) It's true that in East of Eden a whore calls out to Dean, "Hello, pretty boy." And yes, he was pretty: slight and muscular, his body compact, his face beautiful, seraphic, smudged, sleepy-eyed and quite American. Yet his appeal was not the girlish winsomeness of a catamite. It was the lost soul of the postwar teen, glamourized for the movies. In '50s film, that looked revolutionary. Today it just looks brilliant. Dean was important not only for what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Byron Meets Billy Budd | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

...know today. They don't even correspond to the jazz compositions attempted by Igor Stravinsky at the same time--his were far more exploratory in chord structure and overall form. Shostakovich's jazz embodies a kind of ethereal chintz that might call to mind, on first listening, the London compact disc, Riccardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam attempt to bring forth that light naivete in all of its utter inocuousness...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Shostakovich's Jazz Stands in a Genre of Its Own | 8/19/1994 | See Source »

With Philips marketing the sets in the middle price range for compact discs, the savvy buyer can pick up the Brahms cycle for less than $35 dollars in the coupon-saturated Square. However, one might be disappointed to discover Philip's unorthodox packaging scheme--the discs are stored in TyvekTM sleeves within cardboard boxes, rather than in the traditional jewel-box trappings. But external aesthetics aside, what of the music itself...

Author: By Brian D. Koh, | Title: New CD Showcases Brahms | 8/5/1994 | See Source »

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