Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Taking a strong stand on racial politics and fair representation in America, Julian Bond, chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), addressed a crowd of several hundred people at the Institute of Politics' conference on minority representation Friday...
Berwick says he begins to notice those thatreceive large amounts of mail--the 10 letters aday crowd--and also those who get "specialdeliveries" with regularity. After months ofsorting, Berwick says he knows people well enoughto discuss them by address with his roommate, whoalso sorts mail in Kirkland...
...with remarkably few expectations that one could attend Sunday's much-heralded performance. The crowd packed on the Boston Common resembled the crowd that assembles each year for the Boston Pops' Fourth of July performance at the Hatch Shell or a Red Sox game. One hundred thousand people in shorts and T-shirts stood on walkways or sprawled on lawn chairs and beach towels in the uncommonly hot and humid weather. One might have expected to see Nine Inch Nails perform on the gargantuan stage instead of the Boston Symphony...
...performance of Beethoven's Ninth was preceded by two excellent performances--opening acts--that much of the crowd missed while milling around and jockeying for perfect viewing positions. The first was a spirited performance of classical favorites--Verdi's Overture to The Force of Destiny, Bach's Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, and Beethoven's Egmont Overture--by the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras under the direction of David Commanday. The youth orchestra's performance was exuberant and technically sound; they played with a finesse one might not have expected to hear from...
...symphony ended, the spell broke and all of the annoying inconveniences brought upon by the confluence of large crowd in the middle of a large city sprung to reality. People grumbled that the location was horrible, the metallic stage looked suddenly gaudy and the exodus of the sweaty masses to the T squeezed the exhilaration of the afternoon into a distant, if pleasant, memory. Yet it was in the midst of this assembly of humanity at its most human that art at its most transcendent was given life. The touching imperfection of the spectacle somehow subsided in the presence...