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That same evening three miles away, thousands of Poles congregated in a church courtyard. After saying Mass, Warsaw Bishop Jerzy Modzelewski solemnly blessed the dark marble tombstone that marks the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a revered priest who was murdered by secret police in October 1984. Earlier, the crowd of 8,000 waved the red-and-white banners of the outlawed Solidarity trade union...
That day and into the night, Bozzotto pranced around the Holyoke Center courtyard in his Local 26 jacket as if he were Lenin himself. He appeared on television screens and in newspapers across the Boston area, bashing Harvard and Shell Oil for their connections to South Africa. His unconventional methods surprised some in the Harvard community, angered others and bewildered most...
...walk in a half-hour late, you'll have no trouble following it, and if you walk out--or rather, walk in--a half-hour early--which you won't want to do--no one will think you're rude because no one cares, because it's in a courtyard and no one will notice...
Best of all, however, is the marvelous set designed by Gino Lee, who has taken the drab setting of prison granite and turned it into a three-dimensional playhouse. Like a giant pop-up book, the Tower courtyard springs from the stage and folds out to provide interior scenes. Costumes are generally adequate and occasionally impressive, but snatches of synthetic fabric detract from the Elizabethan feel, and several chorus members seem garbed in get-ups on loan from neighboring centuries...
...beginning of the year, when our record was a perfect 0-0, we played in the courtyard behind Matthews Hall...